About
Meet the author exploring speculative futures, alien oceans,
and the fragile boundary between technology and humanity.
Joseph Rhea is a scientist, author, game designer, and screenwriter whose work explores the fragile boundary between technology, survival, and human resilience. His stories are grounded in rigorous science and shaped by immersive atmosphere, often placing characters in extreme environments where systems fail, pressure mounts, and adaptation is the only path forward.
He is the author of the award-winning techno-thriller Cyberdrome, the five-book dystopian undersea saga The Novum, and Rogue Wave, the first novel in his Novum Origins trilogy. His fiction blends hard science with speculative intensity, drawing on real-world research to imagine plausible—and often unsettling—futures.
Beyond novels, Joseph has written two feature-length screenplays, including an adaptation of the first Novum book and an original script that later evolved into Rogue Wave. He has also designed and built two computer games with his brother, Dave Rhea (see below) extending his fictional worlds into interactive form.
When not writing fiction, Joseph is a published ocean scientist whose research focuses on the ocean’s physical properties, life, geology, and chemistry, and their critical role in Earth’s climate and planetary systems. This scientific perspective informs his storytelling, lending authenticity to worlds shaped by depth, pressure, isolation, and change.
David Rhea was a lifelong creative collaborator, technologist, and artist whose work and imagination helped shape many of the worlds explored here. He also happened to be my only brother.
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