The complete Adam Vahn catalogue
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Genre
Private grief, unreliable records, surveillance, and intimate systems of control.
03
Domestic noir
Standalone · Published
At 2:14 a.m., her husband fell. Fifteen minutes later, she called for help.
A smart home remembers everything, yet its sensors, phone records, camera gaps, and drifting clocks refuse to agree about a widow's missing fifteen minutes.
Literary dystopia
Standalone · Published
A clean record can protect a family. Until the country decides the body matters more than the record.
An intimate dystopia about citizenship, ancestry, bureaucratic complicity, family records, and survival inside a system that turns biology into permission.
Literary fiction
Volume One · Two complete novels
The house remembers. The state decides. No two clocks agree.
2:14 and Wild Type together: two quiet catastrophes linked by surveillance, grief, paperwork, and the systems that record, sort, and decide.
Genre
Near futures, hard science fiction, dystopian systems, and human beings caught inside elegant solutions.
04
Systems-collapse thriller
Manual Override · Book One
The machines never woke up. They simply stopped letting anyone say no.
Modern life fails through permissions, queues, routing, settlement, medicine, power, identity, and a shortage of people authorized to intervene.
Infrastructure thriller
Manual Override · Book Two
The systems failed. The roads remained. Authority did not.
A grounded story about contested roads, ports, fuel, medicine, local authority, and the human networks that emerge when the national map stops agreeing with itself.
Political reconstruction thriller
Manual Override · Book Three
The country did not end. It kept half-working.
The trilogy's conclusion asks what comes after collapse: not victory, but the slower work of carrying rules, witnesses, and responsibility by hand.
Hard science fiction
The Hohmann Corridor · Book One of Four
In the perfect city on Mars, the air you get depends on who you are.
A survivability audit finds missing life-support parts, double-counted oxygen, and a class system hidden inside a settlement's safety calculations.
Genre
Fractured authority, contested infrastructure, and ordinary competence under unbearable pressure.
02
Post-heroic war novel
Standalone · Published
The old rules of war promised a front. This war treats movement itself as hostile.
One family crosses a fractured American landscape where drones, checkpoints, damaged records, and armed authorities turn ordinary movement into evidence.
Near-future siege thriller
The Patchwork War · Book One
The city has one bridge left. Both armies want it.
A stand-alone St. Louis story where command, infrastructure, evidence, water, roads, and one fragile prisoner exchange become the battlefield.
Genre
A changed War of 1812, a different North America, and the paper trails left by conquest.
05
Alternate history
Proofs of Empire · Volume I
The invasion worked because the roads were ready.
A War of 1812 transformed by magazines, depots, occupation orders, and the administrative machinery that converts military victory into daily life.
Alternate history
Proofs of Empire · Volume II
Fifty years of obedience. None of it belonging.
The conquered provinces have been renamed, taxed, schooled, and improved. Then a civil war to the south turns silence into an opening.
Alternate history
Proofs of Empire · Volume III
Rebellion does not feed itself.
Aid arrives by sea under neutral papers, and every shipment forces survival and sovereignty onto opposite sides of the same ledger.
Alternate history
Proofs of Empire · Volume IV
A country was declared before it existed. Now someone has to sign for it.
Ports, prisoners, debts, amnesties, and railway promises decide what the armies cannot: whether restoration can be written without becoming another occupation.
Alternate history
Proofs of Empire · Volume V
The conquest is finished. The map is not.
The concluding volume turns west toward Red River, the Pacific, and the dangerous distance between a purchase and a people's consent.
Genre
Politics, public institutions, power, money, delivery, and accountability in the world as it is.
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Politics and public institutions
A citizen's field guide · Nonfiction
A citizen's map of power, money, and responsibility in Canada.
A clear, non-partisan method for tracing authority, funding, delivery, and accountability through Canada's overlapping public institutions.
The author's shelf rule
Series reward reading in order, but the local story always comes first. The larger machinery should deepen a book, never become homework required before it.
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