The Ken Swayne Catalogue

Six Novels and the TV Series.
One Argument

Not a series with shared characters. Six published novels and the television series treatment, each examining the same question — what do institutions do with knowledge that threatens them? — escalating in moral consequence with each work.

Read in This Order

The Leonardo Codex Thrillers

Four novels, one continuous argument about inherited knowledge and who gets to control it.

01
The 1510 Superposition

The 1510 Superposition

Leonardo encoded quantum principles five centuries before the discipline existed. A conclave has been suppressing this knowledge ever since.
ConsolableBuy →
02
The Reluctant Codex

The Reluctant Codex

Elena Voss discovers her DNA carries the marker Leonardo encoded as the key to the final codex. She did not choose this inheritance.
Book One · Start hereBuy →
03
NEXUS

NEXUS

Elena Voss returns. The voluntary network she built becomes the target. The platform reads you. The door is painted on the wall.
Book TwoBuy →
04
DISCORD

DISCORD

Hana Soo-Yeon built the world’s most advanced cognitive synchronisation technology, and accepted the investment that trapped her inside it.
Book Three · Trilogy ConclusionBuy →

Standalone

Standalone Novels

Not connected to the Leonardo Codex universe — each makes its own case.

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The Instinct Directive

The Instinct Directive

The reading was supposed to come back flat. Rowan Marchant is the only one who can see that it doesn’t.
New Release · Consolable — justBuy →
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The Edge Protocol

The Edge Protocol

Warning correctly read. Overridden by grief. Someone stops him. Consolable — just.
Consolable — justBuy →

Political Fiction

TV Series Treatment

TV
Unchanged

Unchanged

The system built, validated again fifty years later, and simply continues. Political fiction — not consolable.

TV Series Treatment
50Years in technology
22Years in Australia
06Published novels
04Leonardo Codex · Books in series

What the Books are Saying Together

The question at the centre of every novel.

The progression is not from evil to more evil. It is from visible culpability to invisible mechanism. The Leonardo Codex Thrillers have identifiable villains. Unchanged has a retired civil servant who understood what he was doing and a system that simply continues without him.

Every mathematical system that claims to describe the world also claims the right to define what the world contains. …and what it does not contain disappears.

Inherited identity

Elena Voss inherits a destiny encoded in her DNA. Seren Pryce inherits a risk classification encoded in her heritage data. Rowan Marchant inherits a career, and eventually a weapon, built out of her own research without her consent. Three inheritances, three mechanisms, the same warning underneath each one.

The Panel Two argument

The error is never in Panel One. The error is in Panel Two, when the list survives. In Unchanged the list has been running for fifty years.

The beauty of the render

Leonardo encoded knowledge in geometric forms so beautiful they were preserved for five centuries. The beauty produced deference. The deference produced silence.

Mathematics as the spine

Running beneath all five novels: the relationship between mathematical systems and institutional power. Each novel shows mathematics being used to do something to the world.

If you arrived via Unchanged

Recommended reading order.

1

The Edge Protocol

The closest thematic companion. The Panel Two argument is the connective tissue.

2

The Reluctant Codex

The inherited identity mirror between Elena Voss and Seren Pryce. Same mechanism, opposite moral direction.

3

The 1510 Superposition

Start of the LCT series. The mathematical thread is clearest here.

4

The Instinct Directive

The same inherited-identity mechanism, told through biology rather than data.

Unchanged — Series Treatment & Manuscript Request