# Christopher Ride

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{{Short description|Australian novelist}}
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| occupation       = Owner - Auskelp Pty Ltd
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| period           = Early 21st century
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'''Christopher Ride''' (born 1965 in [Canberra](/source/Canberra%2C_Australia), Australia) is a [science fiction](/source/science_fiction) and [thriller](/source/thriller_(genre)) writer. He lives in [Melbourne, Australia](/source/Melbourne%2C_Australia). He is also managing director of Interactive, an [IT](/source/IT_service_management) service provider, and has won the 2011 Southern Region [Ernst & Young](/source/Ernst_%26_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](/source/Burma), [Peru](/source/Peru), [Turkey](/source/Turkey), [Canada](/source/Canada) and the [United States](/source/United_States), witnessed three military coups, a category 5 hurricane, a 7.75 Richter scale earthquake and lived in [Tanzania](/source/Tanzania) during the war against [Idi Amin](/source/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](/source/The_Schumann_Frequency)'', in 2007. He was signed by [Random House](/source/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](/source/The_First_Boxer)'' was released in 2009 (Later renamed "The last Empress" in 2012) and a third installment ''[The Inca Curse](/source/The_Inca_Curse)'' followed in 2012.

==Bibliography==
===The Overseer Series===
# ''[The Schumann Frequency](/source/The_Schumann_Frequency)'' (2007) | {{ISBN|9781863256582}}
# ''The Last Empress'' (previously titled ''[The First Boxer](/source/The_First_Boxer)'') (2009) | {{ISBN|9781863256605}}
# ''[The Inca Curse](/source/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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