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Short · 25 words

Collin Vaness is a Canadian novelist writing thrillers and speculative fiction about civilizations under pressure and the people caught inside them.

Medium · 50 words

Collin Vaness writes thrillers and speculative fiction set at the edges of human endurance — from 12th-century Crusader Outremer to the deep prehistoric past to the wreckage of a near-future war. His novels span historical, military thriller, science fiction, and prehistoric epic, united by one question: what happens to people when the world they built breaks?

Long · 150 words

Collin Vaness is a Canadian novelist writing thrillers and speculative fiction across history, the near future, and the deep past. Blood and Faith: The Last Christian King of Jerusalem and The Gate of Bones (Book I of The Silent Threshold) are available now; five additional series are in active development across military thriller, science fiction, generation-ship saga, and 20-book space opera. A licensed professional engineer by training, he brings a working engineer’s discipline to research, operational detail, and the physics of his worlds. He lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Interview & appearance topics

• Writing across genres without diluting either brand or craft.
• The engineer’s approach to fiction research and world-building.
• Near-future military fiction and the responsibility of plausible threat.
• Prehistoric fiction and what current paleogenetics is doing to the genre.
• Twelfth-century Outremer, Guy de Lusignan, and what the historical record leaves out.
• Building long-arc series without losing the reader (or the author).

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