Richard Phillips

Richard Phillips is the bestselling author of several science fiction and fantasy series, including The Rho Agenda Inception, The Rho Agenda, The Rho Agenda Assimilation, and The Endarian Prophecy. The release date for his newest Rho Agenda novel, The Ripper’s Son, is May 2025. Richard was born in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1956, and graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1979. He qualified as a US Army Ranger and served as an officer in the army. Richard 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, serving in Germany, Saudi Arabia, and the United States. Upon his military retirement, Richard was a project manager and senior software developer at General Electric, Hughes Aircraft, Lockheed Martin Space Operations, and General Dynamics, retiring in 2013 to write full-time. Richard lives with Carol, his lovely wife of 44 years, in Phoenix, Arizona.