The Work of Richard P. Wolf
The Universe
Sixteen nonfiction volumes. Eighty-five stories. Two novels. One encyclopedia.
One framework underneath all of it.
Everything in this universe rests on the same foundation: twenty-two principles that eighty-five traditions independently documented across fifty thousand years. The nonfiction examines them. The stories carry them. The fiction lives them. The encyclopedia maps every culture that held them.
No tradition is elevated above another. No interpretation is imposed. The source material is presented. The reader draws conclusions. Read about the method →
Track One · Nonfiction
The Common Ground Project
Sixteen nonfiction volumes examining a different domain of human life through the same lens: what did the 85 traditions independently document? Agriculture, medicine, conflict, sound, family, death, knowledge, collapse — each examined without agenda, through primary sources, with the reader left to draw conclusions.
Book 1 · Coming 2026
The Ground Beneath
The foundation. Twenty-two principles. Eighty-five traditions. No tradition elevated. No tradition dismissed.
Books 2–16 · In Development
Outside the Box · Time Will Tell · The Common Knowledge · From The Ground · Dirt Beneath Them · When The Walls Fell · What We Listened To · What We Ate · The Common Trickster · How We Fought · How We Loved · The Common Family · To The Ground · The Quest Keepers · Glossary of Time
Track Two · Stories from the Traditions
The Ground Beneath the Stories
Eighty-five short stories drawn directly from the 85 traditions — told from within those traditions, in their own terms. Not retellings. Not adaptations. Stories as they were told by the people who lived them. Fifty-six written. Twenty-nine remain. Three volumes.
Volume I · Written
Story 1 · Where North Is · Warlpiri · Central Australia
Story 2 · All My Relations · Lakota · Great Plains
Track Three · Original Fiction
The Emma Series
Two novels set in the same fictional universe. The twenty-two principles are not explained — they are lived by characters who carry them without knowing the name of what they carry. TCG source material and traditions are woven directly into character and story.
Fiction · Book I
In the Shadow of the Wolf
A woman in her fifties researches her family’s genealogy in the hills of Kentucky. What she finds at the edges of the record has always been there. The principles are not named. They are lived.
Fiction · Book II · Teen & YA
Song Singers
Emma’s story. The same universe — a younger voice, different questions, the same framework woven through a world she’s only beginning to understand.
The Reference
Glossary of Time
A per-culture encyclopedia. Every one of the 85 traditions in complete profile: territory maps (then and now), cosmology, key concepts, conflict history, contemporary status, and direct cross-references to every relevant book in the series. Dig Deeper critical thinking questions on every entry. Designed for independent readers and classrooms.