Aruã Macedo

Documentary thriller, São Paulo

The City That Swallow(s)

Original title: A Cidade que Engol(e)

A City Built to Forget — and Someone Learned to Hunt in That Forgetting

A sidelined investigator and an experimental correlation system reopen three decades of archived disappearances in São Paulo — and reveal a predator who kills in the gaps of institutions, where a dismissed report, a stalled case and an ignored witness are enough for a life to vanish without ever becoming a case.

Standalone novel, 48 chapters

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Documentary thriller, São Paulo

The City That Swallow(s)

Original title: A Cidade que Engol(e)

A City Built to Forget — and Someone Learned to Hunt in That Forgetting

A sidelined investigator and an experimental correlation system reopen three decades of archived disappearances in São Paulo — and reveal a predator who kills in the gaps of institutions, where a dismissed report, a stalled case and an ignored witness are enough for a life to vanish without ever becoming a case.

Scope
Standalone novel, 48 chapters
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Books, Film & TV, Audio
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In development

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Generational supernatural western

The White Wilds

Original title: Mato Branco

A Generational Western of Blood, Debt, and Inherited Violence

When a corrupt landowning oligarchy hangs his father under God's silence, a quiet blacksmith tears apart his own faith, seals his body in a shamanic pact of the Caatinga, and leads a legendary band of outlaws in an operatic war of vengeance, gold, and gunpowder against the State.

Scope
Nine-volume generational saga
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Books, Film & TV, Animation, Games, Licensing
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In development

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Hard science fiction, political intrigue

The Varden Saga

Original title: Saga de Varden

Mad Max Meets Dune, Told Like Chernobyl

On the glacial mining colony of Varden, where clean-burning hydrogen engines are the only source of drinkable water, a smuggled shipment turns out to hold 42 living escaped indentured workers — igniting a war between a coastal military aristocracy and a confederation of industrial forges just as the fleet that colonized the planet two centuries ago returns to reclaim it as overdue property.

Scope
Five-book saga
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Books, Film & TV
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In development

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Ecological hard science fiction

Feroxygen

The Earth We Saved Too Much

Millennia after a climate intervention transformed Earth, a forensic ignition cartographer investigates an impossible fire in a high-altitude citadel. In a world where breathing and burning depend on a fragile balance, every trace challenges what her society believes it knows.

Scope
Standalone novel in five parts
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Books, Film & TV, Animation, Games
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In development

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War fantasy, a reimagined Cold War

Red Delta

Original title: Delta Vermelho

A Secondary-World Cold War, Fought With a Captured Sun

A small river nation faces a covert invasion by its own exiles, backed by the continent's greatest power. Its pursuit of energy independence brings six nations to the brink of a war in which a captured star could determine the balance of power.

Scope
Four-book saga
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Books, Film & TV, Animation, Games
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In development

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Cosmogonic myth

Before the Names

Original title: Antes dos Nomes

Before the Universe Had Names

Before language and time, beings of mythic power struggle over the borders of their realms and take part in the making of a universe still without names.

Scope
Six-volume cosmic saga
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Books, Audio
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In development

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Biopolitical science fiction

The Living Signal

Original title: Sinal Vivo

In 2085, Your Body Is the Last Unmeasured Place

By 2085, most of humanity survives inside a permission economy that measures, connects, and claims to care for every body — and the story begins exactly where that promise breaks, in the blind zones and the bodies official systems can't make legible.

Scope
Six sagas · eighteen books
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Books
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Historical fiction, 16th-century Brazil

The Pindorama Chronicles

Original title: Crônicas de Pindorama

Before Brazil Was a Country, It Was a War Between Worlds

On Brazil's 16th-century Atlantic coast, shifting alliances draw Indigenous communities and European powers into conflict over land, survival, and the future being imposed on them. The current story premise is still being reconciled against the project's source and authority records.

Scope
Five-book historical saga
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Books, Film & TV
Stage
In development

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Characters

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P3

Co-lead

The City That Swallow(s) ↗ A Cidade que Engole · Livro I

A woman whose testimony was dismissed for decades and who becomes central to the case reopening.

P1

Protagonist

The City That Swallow(s) ↗ A Cidade que Engole · Livro I

A seasoned investigator in his early forties, sidelined by a punishment; his fieldwork drives the case across both timelines.

Doroteia Flor

Co-protagonist from Book II

The White Wilds ↗ Mato Branco · Livro II

Faísca’s ally and a strategist with decisions and ambitions of her own. Information, negotiation and logistics make her a decisive force in the band’s life.

Mestre Salustiano

Patriarch and protagonist of the origins

The White Wilds ↗ Mato Branco · -2

An artisan and Virgílio’s father, he links the origin volumes to the main arc through land, work and the value of a promise. His choices call for a reading beyond the legend inherited by the family.

Tenente Aniceto

The institution’s armed agent

The White Wilds ↗ Mato Branco · I

The commander of the Baron’s paid militia embodies brutality protected by bureaucratic order. His actions connect Virgílio’s intimate conflict to the local power structure.

Barão Severo

Landed power

The White Wilds ↗ Mato Branco · I

A landowner who combines land seizures, influence and armed force. His rule turns violence into an extension of business and official paperwork.

Mestre Salustiano

Patriarch and protagonist of the origins

The White Wilds ↗ Mato Branco · I

An artisan and Virgílio’s father, he links the origin volumes to the main arc through land, work and the value of a promise. His choices call for a reading beyond the legend inherited by the family.

Coronel Tranca-Rua

Antagonist of Books II–III

The White Wilds ↗ Mato Branco · II

A mercenary tracker raises the pursuit to a level that threatens Faísca’s protection. His presence turns the hunt into a struggle between matter, belief and survival.

Lúcio Nobre

Protagonist of the urban cycle

The White Wilds ↗ Mato Branco · IV

He enters the capital to learn how power works from within. Between policing, favours and money, he tests the distance between confronting an institution and coveting its privileges.

Mestre Salustiano

Patriarch and protagonist of the origins

The White Wilds ↗ Mato Branco · 0

An artisan and Virgílio’s father, he links the origin volumes to the main arc through land, work and the value of a promise. His choices call for a reading beyond the legend inherited by the family.

Lúcio Nobre

Protagonist of the urban cycle

The White Wilds ↗ Mato Branco · V

He enters the capital to learn how power works from within. Between policing, favours and money, he tests the distance between confronting an institution and coveting its privileges.

Lúcio Nobre

Protagonist of the urban cycle

The White Wilds ↗ Mato Branco · VI

He enters the capital to learn how power works from within. Between policing, favours and money, he tests the distance between confronting an institution and coveting its privileges.

Mestre Salustiano

Patriarch and protagonist of the origins

The White Wilds ↗ Mato Branco · -1

An artisan and Virgílio’s father, he links the origin volumes to the main arc through land, work and the value of a promise. His choices call for a reading beyond the legend inherited by the family.

Faísca

Protagonist of the opening arc

The White Wilds ↗ Mato Branco · Livro I — O Batismo de Ferro

An iron and leather artisan driven toward vengeance after his father’s execution. Ritual invulnerability offers protection, but exacts a physical and human price that no feat can erase.

Exilado de Nemanis

Red Delta ↗ Delta Vermelho · Livro I

Vamenur

Protagonist

Red Delta ↗ Delta Vermelho · Livro I

Nemanis's modernizing leader and an advocate for energy autonomy. Under external pressure and the burden of government, his ambition puts the interests of the state in tension with his personal convictions.

Enviado de Kazuma

Red Delta ↗ Delta Vermelho · LIVRO 02

Marechal de Galdim

Red Delta ↗ Delta Vermelho · LIVRO 01

Presidente de Galdim

Antagonist / rival power

Red Delta ↗ Delta Vermelho · LIVRO 01

The young head of state of the rival power, involved in a covert operation that puts his leadership to the test. Name in development.

Líder de Dumenon

Red Delta ↗ Delta Vermelho · LIVRO 02

Dr. Silas Andrade

SOMA neurosurgeon

The Living Signal ↗ Saga 1 — Nexus · Livro 1 — Horizonte

A doctor within the institution confronts the violence embedded in its procedures. Access, responsibility and guilt turn the protection of others into a choice without easy redemption.

Diana Morais

Eva’s central bond

The Living Signal ↗ Saga 1 — Nexus · Livro 1 — Horizonte

Eva’s close friend makes the system’s human cost impossible to treat as an abstraction. Even under physical constraints, she retains desire, humour, attachment and the ability to refuse.

Eva Macedo

Protagonist of Horizonte

The Living Signal ↗ Saga 1 — Nexus · Livro 1 — Horizonte

Eva’s body, humour and choices are the reader’s way into 2085. Her bond with Diana brings the system’s promise of care face to face with an intimate responsibility.

Kael

Engineer and auditor

The Living Signal ↗ Saga 1 — Nexus · Livro 1 — Horizonte

Already on Mars during Horizonte, he investigates mass, heat and capacity to uncover contradictions between measurements and the institutional account. His instruments ground the political drama in concrete physical limits.

Jean de Léry

Proposed central figure

The Pindorama Chronicles ↗ Crônicas de Pindorama · Livro I — O Sangue da Terra

Project materials currently frame him as a chronicler whose record raises questions of selection and representation. Historical portrayal remains subject to source review.

José de Anchieta

Proposed central figure

The Pindorama Chronicles ↗ Crônicas de Pindorama · Livro I — O Sangue da Terra

Project materials currently frame him through language, mission, and institutional power. Historical portrayal remains subject to source review.

Locations

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Mato Branco - Caatinga branca / sertão de ferro

The White Wilds ↗ Mato Branco · Livro I - O Batismo de Ferro

Oficina da Grota

The White Wilds ↗ Mato Branco · Livro I — O Batismo de Ferro

Capital de Nemanis

Red Delta ↗ Delta Vermelho · Livro 1

Delta do Rafez

Red Delta ↗ Delta Vermelho · Livro I — Delta Vermelho

Fortaleza do Rafez

Red Delta ↗ Delta Vermelho · Livro 3

Cidade-nuvem

Red Delta ↗ Delta Vermelho · Transversal

Deserto dos Reis

Red Delta ↗ Delta Vermelho · Livro 1

Aruã Macedo

Aruã Macedo, also known as Guga Brasa, writes long-form fiction across 8 original universes, from the backlands of Brazil to an Earth eighteen thousand years from now.

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