The latest by Brian Tissot
The Spiritual Engineers
He went searching for the Spiritual Engineers. What he found could change humanity’s future.
Born on the ocean world of Thalassa, Rigel has always felt something calling him from beyond the stars. Following that call, he crosses the galaxy and encounters ancient civilizations that have chosen radically different paths—harmony, conquest, technological perfection, and the consumption of life itself.
But every world confronts Rigel with the same question: What should intelligent life become?
His search ultimately leads back to Earth, a beautiful living world in crisis, where humanity’s extraordinary technology has advanced faster than its wisdom. As ecosystems unravel and people become increasingly separated from nature, Rigel discovers disturbing parallels between Earth and civilizations that destroyed themselves long ago.
Blending cosmic adventure with ecology, consciousness, love, and the struggle for psychological wholeness, The Spiritual Engineers asks whether humanity can change course before it is too late—and whether our future among the stars depends not on conquering nature, but on remembering that we are part of it.dventure with ecology, consciousness, love, and the struggle for psychological wholeness, The Spiritual Engineers asks whether humanity can change course before it is too late—and whether our future among the stars depends not on conquering nature, but on remembering that we are part of it.
Explore the Songs of the Universe Trilogy
Songs of the Universe is a sweeping science-fiction trilogy about humanity’s search for its place within a living, interconnected cosmos. Across alien oceans, distant worlds, and ancient civilizations, the series follows generations of explorers confronting the consequences of humanity’s past while discovering that consciousness and connection may extend far beyond our own species.
Blending adventure, ecology, science, spirituality, and the psychology of becoming whole, the trilogy explores a question that grows more urgent with every world encountered: Can intelligence evolve without destroying the living systems that sustain it?
From the mysteries of Thalassa to a galaxy shaped by civilizations that chose cooperation, domination, technology, or transcendence, Songs of the Universe ultimately returns its greatest questions to Earth. At its heart is a story about connection—to one another, to nature, and to the larger universe—and the choices that determine what kind of civilization humanity will become.
Explore worlds in the Songs of the Universe
The Songs of the Universe novellas are short, immersive science-fiction journeys that explore nature, consciousness, and what it means to be alive from radically different perspectives. Each uses an imagined world or form of intelligence to examine questions that reach back to our own relationship with life on Earth.
From the consciousness of an ancient tree in Spirit Tree, to the visionary traditions of Legends of the Morr-Seers, the collision of machine intelligence and the natural world in Kornak: Machine World, and a civilization divided by competing ways of understanding reality in Kiri: Fractured Planet, the novellas range across ecology, evolution, artificial intelligence, spirituality, conflict, animal consciousness, and the nature of perception.
Together, they share a common purpose: to use encounters with other minds and other worlds to help us see our own world—and our place within the larger community of life—from a different perspective.
About Brian Tissot
Dr. Brian Tissot is a marine ecologist, surfer, filmmaker, and science fiction writer living in the 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, spiritual awakening, 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 blog, 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 writes with the heart of a surfer, the eye of a filmmaker, and the soul of a poet.