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Eckert is editor of – and contributor to – the 2005 MonkeyBrain-published work Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe (originally titled: Creative Mythography: An Expansion of Philip José Farmer’s Wold Newton Universe), collecting Farmer's little-seen stories and essays which expand upon the Wold Newtonian concept, alongside "contributions from Farmer’s successors—scholars, writers, and pop-culture historians—who bring even more fictional characters into the fold".
Myths for the Modern Age was a 2007 Locus Award finalist for best non-fiction work.
He has written pulp tales for a yearly anthology of Wold-Newtonish stories edited by Jean Marc and Randy Lofficier, Tales of the Shadowmen volumes 1–5 (Black Coat Press, 2005–2009), mostly centered on the adventures of Doc Ardan, a French version of Doc Savage. He has also written stories for Lance Star – Sky Ranger (Wild Cat Books, 2006) and The Avenger Chronicles (Moonstone Books, 2008). He is a regular contributor of Wold Newton essays and stories to the pro-zine dedicated to and authorized by Farmer, Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip José Farmer.
In 2006, he wrote the foreword to Bison Books' new edition of Philip José Farmer's original Wold Newtonian work Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke (Bison Books, 2006).
Eckert's "Crossover Chronology" of the WNU, detailing in large part the full history of the Wold Newton Universe, largely (although not entirely) through the use of literary/film/TV crossovers between members of the core Wold Newton family and other fictional individuals was published in book form, greatly expanded, by Black Coat Press in 2010 as the two-volume Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World.
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“For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon’s teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—Polly Berrien Berends (20th century)