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.
Recent Blog posts
Tissot’s Songs of the Universe trilogy is an epic journey from ocean to cosmos, weaving together ecological science fiction, indigenous wisdom, and the evolution of consciousness. Across three generations of stewards, the trilogy expands from the intimate bond between a surfer and her ocean to a galactic struggle for the survival of consciousness itself
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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 2028!
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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