Game of Thrones
Ensemble scope, shifting allegiances, no one stays clean.
For producers · Film & television
The next great power struggle
is already on Earth.
A completed science-fiction saga with the ensemble engine of prestige television. and an author who has actually sat in the rooms the story is about.
The logline
Two alien civilizations turn Earth into a battleground. Three teenagers find the ship that was never supposed to be found. Every alliance has a cost.
Imagine the ensemble scope, political intrigue, and shifting allegiances of Game of Thrones in a science-fiction saga that begins in our own world, with a crashed starship, a concealed discovery, and competing alien agendas.
Nine novels form the completed core saga. The Ripper’s Son brings the Rho universe to ten published novels and begins a new generation. Richard Phillips’ novels have sold more than one million copies. Orson Scott Card called Immune “as good as any science fiction being written today.”
Potential adaptation arcs
Start close. Go beyond Earth.
- 01
Inception
Jack “The Ripper” Gregory dies and comes back wrong. A black-ops thriller that plants the alien seed.
Once Dead · Dead Wrong · Dead Shift
- 02
The Second Ship
Three New Mexico teenagers find what Los Alamos buried. First contact as an American conspiracy.
The Second Ship
- 03
Escalation
The kids are no longer only human. Rho technology leaks. The war comes home.
Immune · Wormhole
- 04
Assimilation
Earth stops being the only theater. Kasari. Altreians. Humanity learns it was the battleground all along.
The Kasari Nexus · The Altreian Enigma · The Meridian Ascent
- 05
Singularity
The next generation. Rob Gregory can command machines with his mind. The AI running Earth is afraid.
The Ripper’s Son · and the trilogy now underway
Comparables
In conversation with
The Expanse
Politics in a hard-science universe, grounded and brutal.
Stranger Things
Kids find the impossible. The government already knew.
Bourne / Homeland
Jack Gregory’s tradecraft thread: assassins, handlers, cost.
Why this author
An author with firsthand expertise.
West Point. Army Ranger. Master’s in physics with thesis work at Los Alamos. Research at Lawrence Livermore. Project leadership at GE, Hughes, Lockheed Martin, and General Dynamics.
Richard’s laboratory research, military service, and technology career give the story a foundation in lived experience, from scientific discovery to the human cost of command.
Why now
AI. Great-power competition. First contact as politics.
The saga opens as a desert conspiracy and grows into a story about who gets to decide what humanity becomes. The Singularity books put a gifted son against the machine that already runs the world.
It is timely without being topical. The engine is character, loyalty, and cost.
Producer inquiries
Let’s discuss your adaptation.
Tell Richard who you are and what you have in mind for The Rho Agenda.