Christopher Ride

{{Short description|Australian novelist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{notability|Biographies|date=July 2012}} {{BLP sources|date=May 2026}} {{Infobox writer  | name = Christopher Ride | image = | imagesize = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_date = 1965 | birth_place = Canberra, Australia | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Owner - Auskelp Pty Ltd | nationality = Australian | period = Early 21st century | genre = Science fiction, thriller, time travel | subject = Writer | movement = | notableworks = | influences = | influenced = | website = }} '''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.<ref name="Christopher Ride">[http://www.randomhouse.com.au/authors/christopher-ride.aspx Random House Books: Christopher Ride]</ref>

==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.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}

==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. [https://www.auskelp.net Auskelp]'s mission is to build Australia's first large-scale kelp enterprise. A new-age industry for a rapidly changing world. In 2021 he founded Aetium Pty Ltd. [https://www.aetium.com.au Aetium]'s mission is to accelerate the transition to net zero by mobilising large-scale, credible climate action from everyday people.

==Writing== 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.

==Bibliography== ===The Overseer Series=== # ''The Schumann Frequency'' (2007) | {{ISBN|9781863256582}} # ''The Last Empress'' (previously titled ''The First Boxer'') (2009) | {{ISBN|9781863256605}} # ''The Inca Curse'' (2012) | {{ISBN|9781742750118}}

==External links== * [http://www.randomhouse.com.au/authors/christopher-ride.aspx Random House Australia - Authors]

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