Founded over twelve thousand years ago, before the Younger Dryas, Hyperborean Press was reforged in 2016.

Hyperborea lay beyond the boreal winds, in a land the sun never leaves. The people there lived in peace, practiced the contemplative arts, and built what was meant to last. The poets placed them at the edge of the known world, past the cold, where the noise of human affairs dies down and one can finally hear. We carry the name and the work forward.

What We Publish

Hyperborean Press publishes perennial wisdom literature: books that will still be relevant hundreds of years from now. This includes ancient works that have already proven their durability across millennia, and new works that carry the same weight and have the potential to one day join them on that shelf.

The test is simple. A title must address something permanent in human experience and it must do so in a voice that outlasts the moment it was written. If the book could have been written a thousand years ago and will still be read a thousand years from now, it belongs here.

Our first publication since the refounding is The Way of Bitcoin: Becoming Self-Sovereign by Alan B.

Bitcoin is a relatively new innovation: digital gold, the hardest money ever created. And yet it is the most Lindy of all cryptocurrencies, the one most likely to still exist centuries from now. The book itself is written in that same timeless register, exploring the principles of time, value, work, savings, and a peaceful life. It draws on Laozi, Marcus Aurelius, the Gospels, and the Zen tradition, and reads as a contemporary entry in a lineage that is thousands of years old.

Every work we publish from this point forward will follow this pattern: perennial subject, perennial voice, built to last. We are just getting started.

Theosis Library

Alongside our publishing program, Hyperborean Press maintains Theosis Library, a research tool for the careful reading of ancient texts. The library presents primary sources side-by-side with their original-language text, an English translation, and a photograph of the original manuscript, tablet, or inscription. Every text included has a verifiable primary source.

The library spans early Christian writings, the Hebrew Bible, Sumerian literature, and classical Greek and Latin, with special attention to the theological question of theosis: whether divinity is the exclusive property of Christ or an inner spark present in all beings. It is intended for scholars, students, and anyone who wants to read wisdom literature at its source.

How We Work

Every title is typeset and designed in-house with attention to the material qualities of the book: paper, margin, proportion. We distribute internationally through Ingram Content Group so that any bookseller or library in our markets can order our titles as easily as they would any other trade publication.

On Pseudonymity

Several of our authors write under pen names, and our editor publishes under the name Conan. Wisdom literature has always been pseudonymous in part. The Tao Te Ching itself is attributed to a man whose biography is uncertain and whose name simply means “Old Master.” The desert fathers wrote anonymously by design. What matters is whether what is written is true. Hyperborean Press is comfortable with this tradition and asks readers to be comfortable with it as well.

Contact

General inquiries, review copies, rights, and trade questions are all welcome at conan@hyperboreanpress.com. Booksellers and librarians may find trade terms and ordering information on the Booksellers page.