The Iron Road Reader

Novelist Adam Vahn reads you into the worlds he builds — one chapter, one universe, one impossible choice at a time. Thrillers, alternate history, and science fiction, read aloud with the time and weight they deserve, plus behind-the-scenes tours of how the worlds get made. New episodes every Tuesday. All aboard, Fellow Riders.

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  Episode #6

  S01 - E06: Manual Override — How the World Ends Politely

  Aug 4, 202628 minS1

  <p>A boy dies waiting for the human who was “marked” to review him.</p><p>No one was cruel. The system did exactly what it was built to do, and the part where a person steps in and says, “Stop, I’ll answer for this one,” had quietly stopped existing.</p><p>In episode six of The Iron Road Reader, I walk you through my complete Manual Override Trilogy: The Systems Nobody Controlled, The Roads Nobody Owned, and The Peace Nobody Won, all available now on Amazon in print and Kindle, and free to read on Kindle Unlimited.</p><p>Let me c...

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  Episode #7

  S01- E05: Treated as Hostile: War in the Post-Heroic Era (Dramatic Reading, Chapters 1-2)

  Jul 28, 202655 minS1

  <p>A grandfather counts his family. Four heads, in a crowd pressing toward the boats before dawn. He counts them again, because counting is the one thing the morning has left him - and out over the black water, something small and patient is counting too.</p><p>This week is a gift, Fellow Riders. Author Adam Vahn gives you the first two chapters of his novel Treated as Hostile as a full dramatic reading - and the entire book is free (more on that below).</p><p>But first, a sincere look at the idea the book is built...

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  Episode #4

  S01 - E04: One Hinge, Four Shelves — the Atlas of Empire

  Jul 21, 202625 minS1

  <p>History turns on hinges, and the hinges are almost always smaller than we want them to be.</p><p>Episode four of The Iron Road Reader is a workshop tour of the largest thing I have ever built: The Atlas of Empire, the alternate-history universe that contains the Proofs of Empire novels, along with three more series currently under construction.</p><p>The hinge is deliberately tiny.</p><p>In the early 1800s, the United States chooses professional military preparation: a standing, trained, administrative army, instead of the militia romance of farmers who fight.</p><p>No aliens. No...

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  Episode #2

  S01 - E02: The River Raisin List — an Alternate 1813

  Jul 21, 202623 minS1

  <p>There is a moment after every battle that the history books skip: the hours in a cold shed when someone has to write down the names of the dead before the world decides what those names are allowed to mean.</p><p>In episode two of The Iron Road Reader, we go two centuries backward, into a war that never happened, to talk about something that did.</p><p>The War That Took Canada is the first volume of my five-book alternate-history series, Proofs of Empire, built on one quiet change: in 1807, the United States commits to a professional...

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  Episode #1

  S01 - E01: White Flags — the Opening of Live Load

  Jul 21, 202620 minS1

  <p>Welcome aboard the first-ever episode of The Iron Road Reader, the podcast where I read you into the worlds I build, one chapter at a time.</p><p>This premiere begins on a closed bridge over the Missouri River, at dawn, during a prisoner exchange between two sides that do not trust each other. Everything about the morning has been choreographed to hold violence at bay: painted rectangles for the observers, numbered positions for the cameras, white flags tied to the antennae.</p><p>And then one flag tears loose.</p><p>A small thing. An unscripted thing. The...

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