Stelios Grant Pavlou (born 22 November 1970)[1] is a British screenwriter and speculative fiction novelist.
[5][6] After graduating from the University of Liverpool Pavlou applied to approximately 600 media jobs, but with no success.
He wrote the script for the film The 51st State (known as Formula 51 in the US) while he was living in Rochester, Kent and working for a local wine shop.
[12] He published a second novel, Gene, in 2005 and in 2017, released the first book in his children's fiction series Daniel Coldstar.
In 2021, Pavlou hosted a television show on the Discovery Channel titled "Hunting Atlantis," which has been criticised by professional archaeologists for pseudoscience and contributing to false perceptions of history and archaeology.