Dr. Brian Tissot is a marine ecologist, surfer, and science fiction author 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 reflects 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.
Tissot (aka “Dr. Abalone”) also produces surfing videos on YouTube and blogs about surfing, marine biology, and environmental issues on BrianTissot.com. Fires of Hina is his second science fiction book and the second of three books in the Songs of the Universe series.
What People Say about Fires of Hina
“Tissot creates a compelling, deadly off-world planet, filled with majestic and monstrous sea creatures…”
—Kirkus Reviews
“…a real page turner!”
—John Steinbeck
“This whole storyline is just so imaginative…”
—Michelle Wachi
Fires of Hina 