Joseph Morris

Joe Morris writing as a J.W. Morris. As an aerospace engineer with a passion for space travel and military history, science fiction is an extension of who Joe is. He was introduced to science fiction through the Tom Swift series by his third grade teacher in New York City more than fifty years ago. From that point he knew what he wanted to be: an engineer and an astronaut. Following this path Joe received a BE in Mechanical Engineering and a BS in Physics. He had a successful forty year career as an aerospace engineer in which he earned six patents and technical achievement awards for innovation and new technology. His successes included taking part in the early development of propulsion systems currently flying in the U.S. missile defense. One of his project teams became the first to demonstrate a safe ejection of an ejection seat from a cockpit moving at greater than 700 MPH (at sea level). Recently, he led a team delivering rocket thrusters for NOAA’s (U.S. Weather Service) next weather satellite. His interests are diverse, ranging from history to quantum physics to management of small businesses (he cofounded a successful web-based business). Unfortunately, Joe never quite lived up to his childhood dreams of becoming an astronaut and working on a fusion drive that would take humanity to the stars. But dreams don’t die, so now he uses his imagination and writing to take us to the stars. He wrote and published his first book Empire’s Passing, which has received excellent reviews. It’s the first book in a series, the Imperium Succession Saga, about the collapse of an interstellar empire, and the struggle for survival of one world against an evil that doesn’t follow the niceties of civilized warfare.