Timothy
Eytcheson
Timothy Eytcheson writes political fiction about how power actually works — and builds the systems that bring it to life online.
These stories came rapid-fire after years of holding them back. Now the plan is simple: settle in, share them, and see where they go.
Software developer · Tucson, Arizona · writing fiction between commits
The novels
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The Soil and the Seed & The Overwintering
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Two hundred and forty-six Americans rewrote the Constitution. In the other version, no one did. The winter did.
Six books, one fork in the road. The Soil and the Seed trilogy follows the world that got fixed. The Overwintering trilogy follows the world that didn’t. Same year, same mechanism, opposite futures. The full experience — including interactive features built into the world itself — lives at 10lifetimes.com.
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The Six Year Plan
A small-town man with a fortune. A democracy about to be hacked. Legally. Glenn Canfield spent six years checking the math. He is not checking anymore.
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Point of Order
A congressman arrives in Washington believing the words meant what they said. He follows his career from first election to Speaker of the House — and discovers that parliamentary procedure is the most precise weapon in the building.
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The Uncivil War
A nation divided past the point of argument. The battle lines aren’t state lines and rivers. They’re driveways and alleys. The polarization was always there. What changed was that it finally came to a head.
More stories.
These came rapid-fire after years of holding them back. More are coming. Find out first by following along.
Recommended Reading Order
Nine books, four distinct worlds — where do you start? Here’s how I’d send a new reader in, and why the order matters more than you might think.
The Soil and the Seed is definitely where you should start. While each story stands on its own with its own arc from start to finish, they also play into each of the other component parts (for those stories in a series).
Soil and the Seed ⇒Root and the Rain⇒What the Root Held.
Then the dark side…
Winterkill⇒The Salted Ground⇒What Survived the Frost
If you are looking for a good one-off, The Six Year Plan is a solid bet, but you can’t go wrong with any!
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briefly.
Timothy Eytcheson is a software developer and novelist living in Tucson, Arizona. He builds systems for a living — the kind of work that teaches you how structures hold, how they fail, and what it costs when nobody bothers to understand either.
The fiction came from the same place the code always did: a need to understand how things actually work, and an impatience with explanations that leave the mechanism out. Every one of these books is about power at a different scale — a town, a chamber, a nation, a world — and what happens when someone finally decides to understand the rules well enough to change them.
These stories came rapid-fire after years of holding them back. Now the plan is simple: settle in, share them, and see where they go.