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Steve Worland

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Steve Worland has worked extensively in film and television in Australia and the USA. He has written scripts for Working Title and Icon Productions, worked in script development for James Cameron’s Lightstorm and wrote Fox Searchlight’s Bootmen, which won five Australian Film Institute awards.

Steve also wrote the action-comedy telemovie Hard Knox, the bible and episodes of the television series Big Sky and the Saturn award-winning Farscape. The family film Paper Planes, which he co-wrote, will be released worldwide in 2015. His novelisation of the screenplay will be released at the same time.

He is the author of the action-adventure novels Velocity, Combustion and Quick and is currently writing his fourth book.

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I was born in Sydney, raised for the early part of my life in Tokyo, then came back to Australia to attend Knox Grammar School. After that I studied Film Production at North Sydney TAFE part time, then completed a Bachelor of Arts in Screenwriting at the Australian Film Television & Radio Sch Read more of this blog post »

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Published on September 14, 2012 07:48 • Tags: action-adventure, combustion, matthew-reilly, steve-worland, velocity

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	Velocity (Judd Bell & Corey Purchase, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 2012 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Combustion (Judd Bell & Corey Purchase, #2) 3.95 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 2013 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Quick 4.41 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Judd Bell & Corey Purchase (2 books)
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message 2: by Steve (last edited Oct 04, 2013 09:45PM)

Oct 04, 2013 09:45PM

An excellent review of 'Combustion' in 'The Australian' complete with a positive 'Toy Story' reference! (5/10/13)

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/...

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message 1: by Steve (last edited Oct 06, 2013 08:09AM)

Sep 15, 2013 05:22AM

A nice article about me and 'Combustion' in the Sydney Morning Herald. (15/9/13)

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/b...