Alex Scarrow
| Alex Scarrow | |
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| Born |
14 February 1966 Norwich, Norfolk |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Genre | Alternative history, thriller, science fiction |
| Notable works | Last Light, TimeRiders |
| Partner | Debbie Chaffey |
| Children | Jacob Scarrow, his son |
| Relatives | Simon Scarrow |
| Website | |
| www |
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Alex Scarrow (born 14 February 1966) is a British author, whose books include The Candle Man, A Thousand Suns,Last Light, Afterlight, October Skies, and the young adult science fiction series TimeRiders.
Alex Scarrow used a to be a rock guitarist in a band, spending ten years after college in the music business. He eventually figured that he was very self centered and too self absorbed and not able to involve other input ideas into his band and would never become famous nor get a record deal. 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 such as Waterworld, Evolva, The Thing, Spartan, Gates of Troy, Legion Arena, and Ultimate Soccer Manager.
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. He has since written a number of successful novels, including October Skies. He has also written several screenplays, and is currently writing a highly successful young adult fiction series, 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."
He currently lives in Norwich with his son, Jacob and his partner, Debbie.
Alex Scarrow is planning to span the TimeRiders series over 9 books in total. 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.
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