Earik Beann Books in Order

If you want science fiction with a tech edge: Killing Adam
If you want a true story of crisis and community: Pointe Patrol
If you want big-picture market theory: Unified Theory of Markets → The Fibonacci Vortex Handbook → The Handbook of Market Esoterica
If you want practical trading methods: Trading with Wave59 Volume 1 → Mechanical Trading Systems

Earik Beann is a California writer whose career does not move in a straight line, and that is part of what makes his books interesting. He has written technical trading manuals, a near-future science fiction thriller, and a first-person wildfire memoir. Across all of them, you can feel the same mind at work, curious about systems, pressure, and what people do when the usual rules stop helping.

Writing came first. As a teenager, he spent summer break working on two fantasy novels. They were never published, and he has joked that this was probably for the best, but the habit stuck. He liked building worlds, following ideas all the way through, and seeing what happened when a story got complicated.

For a long stretch, that impulse showed up in the trading world instead of the fiction shelf. Beann worked in markets, built analytical tools, and went on to found Wave59, a trading platform developed for serious market analysis. He has also been involved in a long list of small businesses, including software development, an online vitamin store, specialty pet products, a commodity pool, and a publishing house. Books like Trading with Wave59 Volume 1, The Fibonacci Vortex Handbook, Unified Theory of Markets, Mechanical Trading Systems, and The Handbook of Market Esoterica grew out of that side of his life.

Those books are technical and niche, but they also show a pattern that runs through almost everything he writes, an interest in hidden structure.

Then came October 2017. Beann and his wife were in Santa Rosa during the Tubbs Fire, and he later wrote that he found himself at ground zero as the disaster tore through the area. In the middle of a mandatory evacuation, he joined eight neighbors who slipped back into their neighborhood, formed the makeshift group they called Pointe Patrol, and helped save their block and an apartment complex across the street. Writing Pointe Patrol became more than a way to record the event. By his own account, it pulled him back toward the kind of storytelling he had loved as a teenager and reminded him that writing was what he really wanted to keep doing.

That return to storytelling opened the door to a wider kind of fiction.

His novel Killing Adam takes a very different route, but it still carries some of the same concerns. The book imagines a world run through Altered Reality Chips, where daily life, relationships, and public systems all depend on a network most people no longer question. The setup lets Beann write about technology, control, and dependency, but in a way that stays close to ordinary human stakes. Readers who click with his work often seem to like that mix, big ideas, practical detail, and characters trying to hold onto their judgment when the larger system around them starts to tilt.

These days, Beann lives in California with his wife, Laura, along with a Doberman and two Tennessee barn cats. Away from the page, he has said he enjoys yoga, riding his bike, and playing the didgeridoo. It feels like a fitting set of hobbies for a writer who has moved between charts, code, memoir, and speculative fiction, and who keeps looking for order inside messy situations.