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Christopher Ride (born 1965 in Canberra, Australia) is a science fiction and thriller writer. He lives in Melbourne, Australia. He is also managing director of Interactive, an IT service provider, and has won the 2011 Southern Region Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Technology award.[1]
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Christopher Ride | |
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Born | 1965 Canberra, Australia |
Occupation | Owner - Auskelp Pty Ltd |
Nationality | Australian |
Period | Early 21st century |
Genre | Science fiction, thriller, time travel |
Subject | Writer |
At age 20 Ride had lived in seven countries including Burma, Peru, Turkey, Canada and the United States, witnessed three military coups, a category 5 hurricane, a 7.75 Richter scale earthquake and lived in Tanzania during the war against Idi Amin.[citation needed]
Managing Director of Interactive Pty Ltd, 1999–2017, Australia's largest privately owned IT company. Ride led the organisation to 18 years of successive growth. Ride remained a Director at Interactive until 2019. In 2019 he founded Auskelp Pty Ltd. Auskelp's mission is to build Australia's first large-scale kelp enterprise. A new-age industry for a rapidly changing world.
Ride self-published his first novel, The Schumann Frequency, in 2007. He was signed by Random House Australia (who re-released The Schumann Frequency in 2009) thereafter to a multiple-book deal for his Overseer Series. The second book in the series The First Boxer was released in 2009 (Later renamed "The last Empress" in 2012) and a third installment The Inca Curse followed in 2012.
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