Richard Phillips is the author of several science fiction and fantasy series, including The Rho Agenda (The Second Ship, Immune, and Wormhole); The Rho Agenda Inception (Once Dead, Dead Wrong, and Dead Shift); The Rho Agenda Assimilation (The Kasari Nexus, The Altreian Enigma, and The Meridian Ascent); and Mark of Fire, Prophecy's Daughter, Curse of the Chosen, The Shattered Trident, The Time Seer, and Prophecy's End in the epic Endarian Prophecy series. Born in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1956, Richard graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1979 and qualified as a US Army Ranger, serving as an officer in the army. He earned a master's degree in physics from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1989, completing his thesis work at Los Alamos National Laboratory. After working as a research associate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he returned to the army to complete his tour of duty. Richard lives with his wife, Carol, in Phoenix, Arizona. For more information, visit www.rhoagenda.me.
