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The Catalogue

Works

Fiction and nonfiction — a five-book saga, a game built in its canon, a book on the real-world future of energy, and two works of history in progress.

The Saga · 5 books

Elyria's Fall

A five-book science-fantasy saga set in the dying binary of Alpha and Lucen — a thousand years after the great civilization of Elyria fell, as a slow dark called the Fade eats the last of the light. It's a story of inheritance and conviction, and the terrible cost of holding a balance no one wants.

  1. Dark Sun — the historical root · Oct 2026
  2. Quiet Hand — a generation later · Dec 2026
  3. Traitor — the Belt turns · 2027
  4. Valcor — the other side of the war · 2027
  5. Convergence — the finale · 2027
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Elyria's Fall, Book 1: Dark Sun
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The Game · Unreal Engine 5

Dark Sun: Anchor

An immersive game set in the same canon as the novels. You're broke on the wrong deck of Calyx Orbital, the night the Aetherion berths above the planet — and the only table that matters won't seat you until you've earned your buy-in.

A way into the whole saga: the same factions, the same hard moral gravity, playable.

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Nonfiction

Energy and history

The real-world work behind the fiction: a practical book on powering the places at the end of the line, and two histories told through the words of the people who lived them.

Renewable Horizons: The Challenges and Promise of Renewable Energy, Third Edition, by Earl R. Decker

Nonfiction · Renewable energy · Third Edition, 2026

Renewable Horizons

The Challenges and Promise of Renewable Energy

The title is the same. The book is not.

This edition is written for the places that still run on a diesel barge or a winter fuel flight — Arctic hamlets, Pacific islands, rural towns at the end of the line. The argument hasn't changed: every community is, in its way, an island. The hardware has.

A practical guide to solar, wind, waste-to-energy, and storage for isolated, developing, and resource-limited communities — bridging technical knowledge and real-world implementation, and making the case for hybrid systems and a holistic approach that weighs community well-being and environmental stewardship alongside raw power output.

If you run a co-op, a clinic microgrid, a development desk, or a plant that still starts the generator at dusk, this was written for you.

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Third Edition, 2026 (first edition 2024) · Published by Earl Decker, Windsor, Ontario · Canadian English · figures current to 2026
Paperback ISBN 978-1-0681014-0-3 · Hardcover ISBN 978-1-0681014-1-0 · E-book ISBN 978-1-0681014-2-7

What's New in the Third Edition

The argument held. The hardware moved.

Since the last edition, storage stopped being a promise and became something you can specify.

Storage grew up

Lithium-iron-phosphate became something you can actually specify. Sodium-ion left the lab and matters in the cold. Iron-air put its first hundred-hour plants on a grid — utility scale, not a village kit.

A chapter on control

Controllers got smarter — so the book now spends a chapter on cybersecurity and the manual override. Autonomy is only worth having if you can take the wheel back.

An honest cost toolkit

Chapter 2 is the toolkit I wish I had been handed twenty years ago: nameplate is not what you get, pack price is not system price, and a remote premium is not an insult — it is freight.

What I cut

Subsidy theatre that expires with the next budget.

What I kept

Diesel as a defined leftover duty, not a religion; waste-to-energy only for the stream a village actually produces; perovskite as shipped, not ordinary.

Nonfiction · History · with Gregory F. Decker

History in their own words

Two collaborative books with my brother, Gregory F. Decker — both in progress, built from the primary record rather than from hindsight.

In progress

Front Page History

Earl R. Decker & Gregory F. Decker

A chronicle of the twentieth century told through the front pages of the day — each page paired with original narration that sets the headline against what came next. It begins with Canada's newspapers in 1900, one paper, one day at a time.

In progress

Letters from the Front

Earl R. Decker & Gregory F. Decker

An anthology of authentic letters written by soldiers, gathered across wars and arranged by theme rather than by date — so the same fears, jokes and longings speak to one another across the generations.

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The full world — maps, characters, media, and the story bible — lives at elyriasfall.com.

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