$0.00067 by BEN STEPHENSON (Spring 2027)

Ben's novel is the real deal: original, honest, and confident in its vision. It's our debut title, the reason Helmet Books exists.

$0.00067 is the coming-of-age odyssey of two stray millennials who, after swiping right, struggle to find paths out of themselves and toward inconceivable futures, amid the rubble of “the end of history” and the age of the dating app.

Ben Stephenson is the author of the novel A Matter of Life and Death Or Something—which was nominated for the IMPAC Dublin International Literary Award and prompted CBC Books to name him one of “Ten Canadian Writers to Watch”—and the story collection Good Dog. His work has appeared in Best Canadian Stories, Joyland, The Ex-Puritan, EVENT, and King Skateboard Magazine, and he's a graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing at UBC. He lives on land which was stolen from the Coast Salish people, in what the settler colonial culture now calls “Vancouver, BC,” where he teaches kids to write and make books. He is the founder and publisher of L.A.S.E.R. Press.