Meet Joseph Rhea: Novelist, Screenwriter, Game Designer, and Ocean Scientist

Advised by his high school English teacher to pursue a life of writing, he instead chose a career in engineering and science, driven by his need to explore the world and help create new technologies. Now he has come full circle and is using that experience to become a new voice in today's science fiction. His work has been praised as "high-concept science fiction that blends hard science with relentless momentum." His books include Cyberdrome, a near-future techno-thriller about a rogue programmer navigating a computer-generated virtual world to rescue the love of his life, and the Novum Chronicles, a 5-book series that immerses readers in the depths of an alien ocean where a young cargo-sub captain faces an enemy threatening humanity’s survival. He has also written several spec screenplays, including one adapted from the first book of his Novum saga and an original screenplay that was later adapted into the first book of his Novem prequel trilogy; Rogue Wave.