Near-future fiction about ordinary lives caught inside institutions, wars, and technologies that continue operating long after certainty has collapsed.
Mara has spent eleven years helping citizens correct the discrepancies that can cost them work, housing, medicine, or freedom. Then a routine ancestry review turns her own family into a problem the state expects her to solve. Intimate, unsettling, and sharply human, Wild Type is a literary dystopian novel about belonging, bureaucracy, and the quiet violence of being converted into a category.
A family crossing a fractured American landscape discovers that survival depends less on choosing the right side than on remaining legible to systems that no longer agree. Drones, checkpoints, corrupted records, and armed authorities turn every mile into evidence in this tense post-heroic war novel about civilians trapped inside a conflict without a clean front line.
The machines never woke up. They simply stopped letting anyone say no.
A prisoner exchange lasts twenty-three seconds. Then the drones arrive, and St. Louis becomes a war fought through roads, hospitals, water plants, and the ownership of truth.
Long-form work on systems, power, fiction, political language, and the ideas behind the novels.
Enter Hangar EighteenAdam Vahn writes because stories create movement when illness makes the world feel still.
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