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Science fiction & fantasy
Worlds built from the inside out
Ordinary people living inside extraordinary systems—from the hidden architecture of Spine World to the society behind The Priests.
Canadian author · Storyteller · World builder
John Mack
Stories about people, worlds, and the systems that shape them.
About John
Stories begin with a world that makes them inevitable.
John Mack is a Canadian author, veteran, and lifelong builder of systems. His background in engineering, architecture and project management informs stories that ask how worlds work—and what happens when ordinary people must live honestly within them.
From speculative fiction and hidden civilizations to family history and children’s adventures, John writes with curiosity, warmth and trust in the reader. Not every question is answered on the page. The world continues beyond its edges.
John Mack — Eastern Ontario, Canada
Published Works
Different shelves.
The same curious mind.
Explore John’s published books by kind. Select a linked title to find it on Amazon Canada.
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Historical fiction
Lives carried across generations
Stories grounded in documentary history, following families who crossed oceans and established new roots in New England and Canada.
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Children’s books
Small adventures, warmly told
The Buddy Books invite young readers into a gentle world of ponds, wildlife, friendship and discovery.
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Genealogy & family history
Families found in the record
Research-led histories preserving the Mack name, its heraldry, and the descendants who established connected family lines across Canada.
In the Workshop
What John is building next.
Stories are rarely waiting fully formed. They are designed, tested, taken apart and rebuilt until the world—and the people inside it—feel true.
The Archivist of Alignment
The opening story in a four-book science-fiction series about alignment, intelligence and the systems beneath civilization.
The Archivist and the Architect
The Archivist enters the realm of the Architect and begins becoming something more fully formed—and more human.
The Archivist and the Expanse
The Archivist moves beyond familiar boundaries into an expanse of intelligence, connection and possibility.
Earth, Robots and the Archivist
Two human-form robots searching for Earth’s next home encounter the fully formed Archivist on an alien world.
Nano War
A science-fiction story exploring conflict at a scale too small to see—and consequences too large to ignore.
Threads
Two people, a remote Sahara station and an intelligence named Connie—connected by a choice to wait, learn and understand.
Far and Distant Shore
A developing series beginning with Far and Distant Shore, followed by Return to Vel’Kor and The Chosen Horizon.
In the Lands of My Fathers
A unified historical novel spanning Scotland, New England and Hastings County.
Shop
Trolls and things built between stories.
Trolls of Death Shop↗
Books are available through the direct Amazon Canada links in Published Works.