Alex Scarrow

Alex Scarrow is a British author, whose books include The Candleman, A Thousand Suns,^[1] Last Light, Afterlight, October Skies, and the young adult science fiction series TimeRiders.^[2]

Early life

Alex Scarrow used to be a rock guitarist in a band, spending ten years after college in the music business. He eventually figured that his band would never become famous nor get a record deal. So he left the music industry in order to become a graphic artist and then he decided to be a computer games designer.

He worked on game titles^[3] such as:

Waterworld, Evolva, The Thing, Spartan, Gates of Troy, Legion Arena, Ultimate Soccer Manager.^[4]

He started his writing career initially by writing screenplays, but after difficulty entering the business he turned his strongest screenplay into the successful A Thousand Suns novel.^[5] He has since written a number of successful novels such including October Skies. He has also written several screenplays, and is currently writing a highly successful young-adult fiction series,^[6] which according to his TimeRiders website:

"Allowed him to really have fun with the ideas and concepts he was playing around with when designing games."^[7]

He currently lives in Norwich with his son, Jacob and his wife, Frances.

Books

Thrillers

• A Thousand Suns - May 3, 2006 (ISBN 978-0-7528-8135-5)
• Last Light - July 25, 2007 (ISBN 978-0-7528-9327-3)
• October Skies - August 21, 2008 (ISBN 978-0-7528-8429-5)
• Afterlight - May 27, 2010 (ISBN 978-1-4091-0306-6)
• The Candle Man - April 26, 2012 (ISBN 978-1-4091-0818-4)

TimeRiders

Alex Scarrow is planning to span the TimeRiders series over 9 books in total:

• TimeRiders - February 4, 2010 (ISBN 978-0-1413-2692-4)
• TimeRiders: Day of the Predator - October 12, 2010 (ISBN 978-0-1413-2693-1)
• TimeRiders: The Doomsday Code - February 3, 2011 (ISBN 978-0-1413-3348-9)
• TimeRiders: The Eternal War - July 14, 2011 (ISBN 978-0-1413-3633-6)
• TimeRiders: Gates of Rome - February 2, 2012 (ISBN 978-0-1413-3649-7)
• TimeRiders: City of Shadows - August 2, 2012 (ISBN 978-0-1413-3707-4)
• TimeRiders: The Pirate Kings - February 7, 2013 (ISBN 978-0-1413-3718-0)
• TimeRiders: The Mayan Prophecy - July 18, 2013

The series is about an agency which consists of three teenagers who have cheated death, and who travel in time to fix history broken by time travel.^[8]

Ellie Quin

• Ellie Quin Book 1: The Legend of Ellie Quin - December 23, 2013 (ISBN 978-0-9575-1600-7)
• Ellie Quin Book 2: The World According to Ellie Quin - December 23, 2013 (ISBN 978-0-9575-1601-4)
• Ellie Quin Book 3: Beneath the Neon Sky - December 23, 2013 (ISBN 978-0-9575-1602-1)

Ellie Quin is a new series about a young girl who thought she's ordinary. Turns out she couldn't have been more wrong. She's the most valuable, the most dangerous, the most sought-after human in the universe... and there are people already zeroing in on her.^[9]

Family

He is the brother of Simon Scarrow, an author who has also written numerous novels. His book Gates of Rome include the characters Quintus Licinius Cato and Lucius Cornelius Macro from Simon Scarrow's "Eagle" series.

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