Stelios Grant Pavlou (born 22 November 1970)[1] is a British screenwriter and speculative fiction novelist. He is known for writing the novel Decipher and the screenplay for the film The 51st State.[2][3]
Stel Pavlou | |
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| Born | 22 November 1970 Gillingham, Kent, England |
| Occupation | Novelist, Screenwriter, Producer, Actor |
| Nationality | British-American |
| Genre | Thriller, speculative fiction, science fiction, adventure |
| Subject | History, mythology, anthropology, languages, genetics, outer space |
| Website | |
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Personal life
editPavlou was born in Kent, England on 22 November 1970 and went to the Chatham Grammar School for Boys. He attended the University of Liverpool in American Studies and received a degree in American Studies, which required that he spend a semester in the United States.[4] Pavlou also served in the Cypriot army for one year.[5][6]
Career
editAfter 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. The film was released in 2001 and starred Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Carlyle.[6][7] For the British DVD release Pavlou did the audio commentary and included a featurette titled, "Who the Hell is Stel Pavlou."[8][9] During 2001 Pavlou also published his debut novel, Decipher, through Simon & Schuster. The novel centers upon Atlantis and received reviews from The Independent,[10] The Washington Post,[11] and Cryptologia.[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.[13]
Selected works
editNovels
- 2001 Decipher and related website Atlantipedia[14][10]
- 2005 Gene[15]
- 2017 Daniel Coldstar: The Relic War[16][17]
- 2019 Daniel Coldstar: The Betrayer
Short stories
- 2006 "Checkpoint", published in Doctor Who Short Trips: The Centenarian[18]
- 2007 "Omegamorphosis", published in Short Trips: Destination Prague[19]
- 2007 "You Had Me at Verify User Name and Password", published in Short Trips: Snapshots[20]
Screenplays
References
edit- ^ "Birthdays today". The Times. 22 November 2013. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
- ^ Neale, April. "Exclusive Interview with Discovery's 'Hunting Atlantis' Stel Pavlou". Idaho Press. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
- ^ Gibbons, Fiachra (15 May 2000). "Off-license writer wins blockbuster film deal". The Guardian.
- ^ Price, Daisy (24 May 2001). "GRADUATE CAREERS: How I Got Here - STEL PAVLOU, NOVELIST AND SCREENWRITER: 'Tim Roth phoned me back". The Independent.
- ^ "Pavlou, Stel 1970–". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
- ^ a b Lister, David (15 May 2000). "The man from Threshers, off-licensed to thrill". The Independent. Independent. Archived from the original on 24 May 2022. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
- ^ SIMPSON, RICHARD (7 November 2001). "Mayfair turns tartan for premiere". Evening Standard. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
- ^ a b Haflidason, Almar. "The 51st State DVD (2001) (Review)". BBC. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
- ^ a b Rodrigues, Rene (18 October 2002). "Action comedy heavy on action but light on originality, laughs".
- ^ a b Barrett, David (18 May 2001). "Friday Book: Mythical mumbo jumbo in a labyrinth of erudition; Decipher by Stel Pavlou (Simon & Schuster, pounds 12.99)". The Independent.
- ^ Winter, Reviewed Douglas E. (22 December 2002). "What Lies Beneath". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
- ^ Dooley, John F. (28 March 2007). "Reviews of Cryptologic Fiction". Cryptologia. 31 (2): 192–195. doi:10.1080/01611190701216333. ISSN 0161-1194. S2CID 31747884.
- ^ Moss, Candida (12 September 2021). "Atlantis, Which No Serious Historian Thinks Existed, Is Making People Insane on Twitter". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 1 October 2021.
- ^ Newlove, Donald (1 September 2002). "Flights of Fancy in a wondrous world of science". The Philadelphia Inquirer.
- ^ Colin, Odell; Le Blanc, Mitch (2005). "Gene (review)". Vector. 240: 31–32.
- ^ "Daniel Coldstar: The Relic War (review)". Horn Book Guide (BookVerdict.com).
- ^ Bush, Elizabeth (2017). "Daniel Coldstar: The Relic War by Stel Pavlou (review)". Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. 71 (4): 173. doi:10.1353/bcc.2017.0884. ISSN 1558-6766. S2CID 201742442.
- ^ Short trips. The centenarian : a short-story anthology. Ian Farrington. Maidenhead: Big Finish. 2006. ISBN 978-1-84435-191-6. OCLC 181923235.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Short trips : destination Prague : a short-story anthology. Steve Savile. Maidenhead: Big Finish. 2007. ISBN 978-1-84435-253-1. OCLC 156956515.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Short trips : snapshots : a short-story anthology. Joseph Lister. Maidenhead: Big Finish. 2007. ISBN 978-1-84435-267-8. OCLC 166355632.
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