Christopher Ride

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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]

Early life[]

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.

Career[]

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.

Writing[]

Ride self-published his first novel, , 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 was released in 2009 (Later renamed "The last Empress" in 2012) and a third installment followed in 2012.

Bibliography[]

The Overseer Series[]

1. (2007) | ISBN 9781863256582
2. The Last Empress (previously titled ) (2009) | ISBN 9781863256605
3. (2012) | ISBN 9781742750118

External links[]

• Official facebook page
• Random House Australia - Authors

References[]

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