Alex Scarrow is a British

United Kingdom

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 author, whose books include A Thousand Suns, Last Light, Afterlight, October Skies, and the young adult science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 series TimeRiders

TimeRiders

TimeRiders is a series of young adult science fiction novels written by Alex Scarrow. It is planned to have nine books and is currently published by the Penguin Group.-Summary:...

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Early life

Alex Scarrow used to be a rock guitarist spending ten years after college in the music business, then he became a graphic artist and then he decided to be a computer games designer.

He worked on game titles such as:

Waterworld, Evolva

Evolva

Evolva is a third-person action game, released in 2000. The player leads a team of 4 "GenoHunters" exploring a planet; each of the GenoHunters can develop new abilities by incorporating and altering the DNA they've absorbed from the creatures they have killed...

, The Thing

The Thing (video game)

The Thing is a third person survival horror game. The game was presented as a sequel to John Carpenter's 1982 film The Thing. It was developed by Computer Artworks and published by VU Games. It was released in North America for the PS2 on August 19, 2002, on the PC on August 20, 2002 and on the...

, Spartan, Gates of Troy, Legion Arena

Legion Arena

Legion Arena is a real-time tactical RPG by Slitherine Strategies that allows the player to play as several tribes during the rise of the Roman Empire. The player can play as the Latin tribes, the Celts and the Romans. It is published by Freeverse Software for Mac OS X and Strategy First for Windows...

, Ultimate Soccer Manager

Ultimate Soccer Manager

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He started his writing career initially by writing screenplays, but after difficulty entering the business he turned his strongest screenplay into the succesfull A Thousand Suns novel. He has since written a number of successful novels such as the October Skies novel several screenplays, and Young Adult

YA

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 fiction, which according to to his TimeRiders website:

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

He currently lives in Norwich

Norwich

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 with his son, Jacob and his wife, Frances.

Alternative History

• A Thousand Suns - May 3, 2006 (ISBN 978-0-7528-8135-5)
• October Skies - August 21, 2008 (ISBN 978-0-7528-8429-5)

Thrillers

• Last Light - July 25, 2007 (ISBN 978-0-7528-9327-3)
• Afterlight - May 27, 2010 (ISBN 978-1-4091-0306-6)

TimeRiders

Alex Scarrow is planning to span the TimeRiders

TimeRiders

TimeRiders is a series of young adult science fiction novels written by Alex Scarrow. It is planned to have nine books and is currently published by the Penguin Group.-Summary:...

series over 9 books in total:

• TimeRiders - Released February 4, 2010 (ISBN 978-0-1413-2692-4)
• TimeRiders: Day of the Predator - Released October 12, 2010 (ISBN 978-0-1413-2693-1)
• TimeRiders: The Doomsday Code - Released February 3, 2011 (ISBN 978-0-1413-3348-9)
• TimeRiders: The Eternal War - Released July 14, 2011. (ISBN 978-0-1413-3633-6)
• TimeRiders: Gates of Rome - Due to be released February 2nd 2012. (ISBN 978-0-1413-3649-7)

The series is about an agency which consist of three teenagers who have cheated death, who travel in time to fix history broken by time travel.