Christopher Ride (born 1965 in Canberra, Australia) is a science fiction and thriller writer.
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.
[1] 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] Managing Director of Interactive Pty Ltd, 1999–2017, Australia's largest privately owned IT company.
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.