Alex Scarrow

Alex Scarrow used to be a rock guitarist in a band, spending ten years after college in the music business. He eventually figured that he 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^[2] such as Waterworld, Evolva, The Thing, Spartan, Gates of Troy, Legion Arena, and Ultimate Soccer Manager.^[3]

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.^[4] 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,^[5] 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."^[6]

He currently lives in Norwich with his son, Jacob and his partner, Debbie, and two rats.

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

Alex Scarrow wrote the TimeRiders series which consists of 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.^[7]

• TimeRiders – 4 February 2010 (ISBN 978-0-1413-2692-4)
• TimeRiders: Day of the Predator – 12 October 2010 (ISBN 978-0-1413-2693-1)
• TimeRiders: The Doomsday Code – 3 February 2011 (ISBN 978-0-1413-3348-9)
• TimeRiders: The Eternal War – 14 July 2011 (ISBN 978-0-1413-3633-6)
• TimeRiders: Gates of Rome – 2 February 2012 (ISBN 978-0-1413-3649-7)
• TimeRiders: City of Shadows – 2 August 2012 (ISBN 978-0-1413-3707-4)
• TimeRiders: The Pirate Kings – 7 February 2013 (ISBN 978-0-1413-3718-0)
• TimeRiders: The Mayan Prophecy – 18 July 2013 (ISBN 978-0-1413-3719-7)
• TimeRiders: The Infinity Cage – 6 November 2014 (ISBN 978-01413-3720-3)

Ellie Quin is a new series about a young girl who thought she was ordinary. It 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.^[8]

• Ellie Quin Book 1: The Legend of Ellie Quin – 23 December 2013 (ISBN 978-0-9575-1600-7)
• Ellie Quin Book 2: The World According to Ellie Quin – 23 December 2013 (ISBN 978-0-9575-1601-4)
• Ellie Quin Book 3: Beneath the Neon Sky – 23 December 2013 (ISBN 978-0-9575-1602-1)
• Ellie Quin Book 4: Ellie Quin in Wonderland – 1 January 2014 (ASIN: B00I9P2Q3W)

• Remade (Remade 1) - 16 June 2016 (ISBN 9781509811205)
• Reborn (Remade Trilogy 2) - 29 June 2017
• Plague World (A Remade Novel) - 26 July 2018
• Plague Nation (A Remade Novel) - 26 July 2018
• Plague Land (A Remade Novel) - 26 July 2018