Dr. Brian Tissot is a marine ecologist, surfer, filmmaker, and science fiction writer living on the wild edge of the Pacific NW. With one foot in the world of hard science and the other in the tides of imagination, he writes visionary stories that blend marine biology, indigenous wisdom, and speculative futures. A lifelong explorer of waves and oceans, Brian has led pioneering RESEARCH on coral reefs, kelp forests, and the deep sea, publishing widely in scientific journals and appearing in films and popular media.
His science fiction writings and FILMS reflect a deep reverence for the ocean and a poetic sensibility shaped by years of diving, surfing, and listening to the rhythms of the natural world. Brian’s stories often unfold in richly imagined worlds — part crumbling utopia, part sacred dreamscape — where ecology is destiny and memory is terrain. Whether charting alien oceans, haunted ruins, or spiral stairways rising from submerged cities, he writes with the heart of a surfer, the eye of a filmmaker, and the soul of a poet.
At the core of his work lies a human pulse: characters searching for grace in shipwrecks, belonging in hostile environments, and meaning in the ruins of lost civilizations. Brian Tissot is not just a writer — he’s a cartographer of forgotten worlds and a cultural diver mapping the sacred in the futuristic.
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Across Songs of Thalassa, Fires of Hina, and The Spiritual Engineers, the author’s work approaches science fiction and fantasy as traditions of ethical imagination rather than spectacle. In the lineage of Ursula K. Le Guin, Frank Herbert, and J.R.R. Tolkien, these stories treat worlds not as arenas for conquest, but as living systems shaped by relationship, memory, and responsibility. Technology, myth, and ecology are inseparable here; spiritual insight is not opposed to science but arises through attentiveness, restraint, and care.
These narratives resist the mythology of domination. Power is measured not by control or conquest, but by the capacity to listen, to remain in relationship, and to accept consequence. Characters are not driven by destiny alone, but by the difficult choice to stay open—to one another, to ancestral and indigenous wisdom, and to worlds that cannot be possessed without being diminished.
Taken together, the Songs of the Universe trilogy form a cohesive body of literary speculative fiction that asks a single, enduring question: not how humanity might master the universe, but whether it can learn to belong within it—and what forms of love, song, and ethical restraint that belonging demands.
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Twelve light-years from Earth lies Thalassa—an uncharted ocean planet shrouded in storms, secrets, and the echoes of a vanished past. For Sage Thompson, a fallen big-wave champion haunted by loss and exile, the journey to Thalassa is a last shot at redemption. What she finds is beyond imagining: a water-covered world teeming with alien beauty, spiritual resonance, and ethereal songs that speak directly to her soul.
“…blends cutting-edge oceanography, marine biology, Hawaiian culture, and music into a delightful hard-SF tale sure to join the ranks of fine water worlds.”
— Don Sakers, Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine
Fires of Hina a luminous and haunting eco-spiritual novel that explores the fractured relationship between humanity, nature, and the cosmos through the lens of loss, longing, and resistance. At its heart lies a grieving ocean—and Lani, a young marine ecologist caught in its tide, searching not only for endangered whales and alien songs but also for a sense of wholeness in a rapidly unraveling world.
““Tissot creates a compelling, deadly off-world planet,
filled with majestic and monstrous sea creatures…”
—Kirkus Reviews
The Spiritual Engineers: coming in 2027!
In the far reaches of the galaxy, life is not an accident. It is engineered. Nurtured. Protected.
Raised on the ocean world of Thalassa by the ancient Nesoi, Rigel has always felt the call of something greater. That call becomes destiny when he meets the Spiritual Engineers—an alliance of ancient, sentient races who seed and safeguard life across the stars to expand universal consciousness.
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