E. Christopher Eric

I craft the seed. You grow the world.

The Author

Who he is

E. Christopher Eric spent a career as an objective observer — an international management consultant, a university professor, an executive trained to watch systems and tell the truth about them. Then he started building worlds.

He writes what he calls true canon: speculative and literary fiction grounded in rules that hold, worlds coherent enough to live in. His method is simple to say and hard to do — he crafts the seed, then lets others grow what they like. Erth, Squid, and Growing Up Andersen are the first three; the larger project is to open these worlds so anyone can claim a stake and grow their own adventures inside them.

The Works

Three worlds in flight

Cover of Erth by E. Christopher Eric — opens openerth.com Cover of Squid by E. Christopher Eric — opens squidalovestory.com Cover of Growing Up Andersen by E. Christopher Eric, coming soon — opens meceadvisory.com Coming Soon

Coinable = how open a world is to others growing their own stories inside it.  ● Erth, fully · ◐ Squid, in part · ○ Growing Up Andersen, not (it's true).

The Method

Coat of arms of Askøy

The Askøy Process

Off the western coast of Norway lies Askøy, the island the family hails from — a quiet place that has never had to face the open sea alone. The harbor city of Bergen stands between it and the weather, its arms turned outward so the island behind can stay exactly itself. Nothing reaches Askøy that Bergen has not first let through the harbor.

That is how the worlds are made. There is a private island kept off the open water — an air-gapped canon where the rules of each world are written down and held true, sheltered from the noise of everything outside. Bergen is the guarded harbor around it: only trusted boats are allowed to cross. One carries the author's voice; another carries the day's work up from a deep second brain; a third rows out with a seed — the small, true beginning of a world — and brings back whatever has grown.

The island stays private on purpose. But the harbor is widening. The plan has always been to let Erth and Squid open their gates — to let others sail in, claim a stake, and grow their own stories in waters that still hold. The canon stays true; the sea gets larger.