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Matthew Reilly, born July 2nd, 1974, is an Australian thriller writer.
While attending the University of New
South Wales, he wrote his first book Contest in 1994. It was rejected by every major publishing
company in Sydney, which drove Reilly to self-publish 1,000 copies.
One copy was read by an editor at Pan MacMillan, who immediately signed Reilly up to write Ice Station, which became an international best-seller.
In the years to come, he wrote Temple , Area 7 and Scarecrow , which have
since been published in over fifteen countries, including Australia, the USA, the UK, Canada, Germany, South
Africa, Japan and China.
Reilly is well known for his style of writing, which, unlike any other before it, focuses entirely on Hollywood-style action scenes, relegating drama and character development to second
priority. Another characterisitc of Reillys novels are long elaborate chase scenes involing unusual means of transportation (i.e.
the SAS chasing the US Marines aboard hovercrafts in Ice Station)
Reilly's main influences are: Michael Crichton, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.
Reilly's latest work is an eight part online novel called Hover Car Racer.
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