Earl DeckerAuthor

The Author

About Earl

Earl R. Decker writes from both sides of the same question: what it takes to keep the lights on when the world is running out of easy answers.

By day he is an inventor and entrepreneur: the founder, CEO and Chief Technology Officer of Bright Sand Group in Windsor, Ontario, where he builds waste-to-energy and advanced carbon systems. He is a named inventor on United States patents in carbon nanomaterials, and has spent his working life where new technology meets the balance sheet and the community has to live with the result.

By night he builds worlds. The fiction and the nonfiction are not two careers. They are one argument told twice: once as it is, and once as it might become.

Earl R. Decker

Nonfiction

The working world

Earl's nonfiction comes straight out of the field. Renewable Horizons: The Challenges and Promise of Renewable Energy, now in its third edition, is a practical guide to solar, wind, waste-to-energy and storage for the places at the end of the line: Arctic hamlets, Pacific islands, and rural towns where the generator still starts at dusk. It is written for the people who have to make those systems work, and it is honest about what they cost.

With his brother, Gregory F. Decker, he is writing two works of history built from the primary record. Front Page History tells the twentieth century through the front pages of the day, starting with Canada's newspapers in 1900. Letters from the Front gathers soldiers' letters across wars and lets them speak to one another by theme.

He also publishes independent research on Academia.edu: thirteen papers so far, from quantum foundations to applied technology. It is the speculative engine that keeps the fiction honest.

Fiction

The world that might be

Elyria's Fall is a five-book science-fantasy saga set in the dying binary of Alpha and Lucen, a thousand years after a great civilization broke apart. It turns on a slow decline rather than a single catastrophe: a system where almost everyone profits from the cold, and only a few can act to change it. The first book, Dark Sun, arrives in October 2026.

He is also the creator of Dark Sun: Anchor, a game built in the same canon in Unreal Engine 5, so readers can step inside the world and feel its hard moral gravity for themselves.

The energy that runs through the saga is not invented from nothing. The failing stars, the rationed heat, the fights over who gets the power and who waits in the dark: Earl has watched versions of those arguments play out in real communities. The science fiction simply turns the dial further.

Influences & approach

The shape of the work

His fiction reaches for the scope of Asimov, the deep history of Tolkien and the inventive play of Piers Anthony, with the intimacy of character-driven fantasy. He is drawn to moral gravity: stories where being right isn't the same as doing right, and where a world's history weighs on every choice its people make.

In both his fiction and his nonfiction he works the same way: one rigorously maintained source of truth, many moving parts, and nothing allowed to contradict the physics without a reason.

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Save the system — keep it from any single power, and hold the balance almost no one wants. — the mission at the heart of Elyria's Fall

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