HELIOS original cover art

Original cover art for the novel Helios by Ocean, artwork by David V. D'Andrea. Helios: A boy raised in a hermetic city at the foothills of an infinite mountain range loses his brother to an expedition that set out to find the edge of the sea. This experience catapults him on a quest of becoming, into a portentous world in search of a father he has never met. As his sojourns with desire and loss ferry him toward manhood, he learns that the future of the world hangs on his ever-metamorphosing home town, and on his initiation into a sequestered atavistic society. What unfolds is a coming-of-age story of survival and the search for meaning in an animist world on the verge of collapse. Set in an alternate oneiric Olympia, and painstakingly sewn through interlaced narratives and hallucinatory poetics, Helios combines elegiac literary fiction, extravagant erotomyth, and psychologue into a fable which flowers open like Devil’s Blossom. A flavor on the tongue of what never was, yet is always.