Rick Canhan
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Rick Canhan
by Richard Canhan
One man. One portal. One chance to change everything.
When miner Austin Jones survives a catastrophic underground collapse, he stumbles into a hidden world beneath the earth—an ancient tunnel system capable of moving people across time.
Stranded in a harsh future shaped by humanity’s failures, Austin finds refuge in a desert community where survival depends on trust, restraint, and respect for the land. But the past calls him back, and with it comes a discovery that will rewrite everything humanity believes about history, destiny, and its place in the universe.
From underground arenas carved with impossible symbols to time-lost journeys into 1890 Australia, Mayan Prophecies weaves a gripping tale of survival, love, sacrifice, and the terrifying responsibility of knowledge.
Because the future isn’t written.
It’s tested.
MAYAN PROPHERCIES: Return of the harbinger
Mayan Prophecies is a genre-blending science-fiction epic combining survival adventure, time travel, ancient mysteries, and environmental speculation. It asks one final question: If you could change the future, would you be brave enough to accept the cost?
Rick Canhan, Aust Army Veteran, Father-Grandfather and Author
Rick Canhan is an Australian Author, Army veteran, Justice of the Peace, father and grandfather, speaker, and advocate whose work is grounded in lived experience. Born in the UK in 1959, he spent part of his early childhood in institutional care—an experience that shaped a lifelong commitment to truth, accountability, and resilience. Following a diverse working life, Rick now focuses on writing and public advocacy. He supports people harmed in care, raises funds for veteran-focused initiatives, and advocates broadly for men’s health and wellbeing. His work centers on recognition, reform, and constructive change, with an emphasis on dignity, fairness, and long-term recovery. Measured, direct, and principled, Rick’s voice is guided by the belief that speaking truthfully—without exaggeration or malice—is essential to justice, healing, and ensuring that unheard voices are finally acknowledged.
Discovering more than the lost canopy buried in the desert
“In the heart of the Simpson Desert, two brothers confront the past in search of more than a lost canopy”
Two short stories to ignite the imagination
Puzzled — Literary Thriller
Something is wrong, though nothing appears to be.
Puzzled is a quiet work of literary horror in which an ordinary moment begins to fracture. As familiar details subtly shift, the narrator is drawn into a tightening spiral of unease—where certainty erodes and meaning becomes dangerous.
The story explores the horror of misalignment: when the world refuses to behave as expected and the mind can no longer trust its own patterns. With restrained prose and mounting dread, Puzzled reveals how terror does not always arrive loudly, but seeps in through doubt, repetition, and the fear that reality itself has become unreliable.
Unsettling and precise, Puzzled lingers as a question that refuses to resolve.
Beneath The Southern Cross
Set in rural Australia, Beneath The Southern Cross centres on a sudden, destabilising incident that disrupts the fragile balance of everyday life and binds together those caught in its wake.
What begins as an ordinary day unfolds into crisis, forcing individuals and families to confront fear, responsibility, and the emotional weight of the past. As the aftermath ripples outward, relationships are tested, buried truths surface, and the characters must reckon with choices made in moments when there is no time to hesitate.
The Australian landscape looms large throughout the novel—beautiful, indifferent, and relentless—mirroring the inner lives of those who live and labour beneath it. Blending grounded realism with subtle, unsettling undertones, Beneath The Southern Cross explores how a single moment can alter the course of a life, and how meaning is forged not in the event itself, but in how it is remembered, endured, and carried forward.
This is an intimate, emotionally resonant novel about resilience, consequence, and the quiet, lasting impact of moments that cannot be undone.