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Richard Russell Riordan Jr. (/ ˈ r aɪ ər d ə n / RY-ər-dən; born June 5, 1964) [1] is an American author, best known for writing the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. Riordan's books have been translated into forty-two languages and sold more than thirty million copies in the United States.
Gaia is the wife of Ouranos, and mother of the Titans, the Elder Cyclopes, the Hekatonkheires, the Giants, and Antaeus. She is the grandmother of the Olympians, whose rule she resents. As of The Son of Neptune , she remains sleeping in the ground, but retains some consciousness and influence.
Rick Riordan discusses writing his new book "The Chalice of the Gods," starring Percy Jackson, and teases the upcoming Disney+ TV show premiering in December.
Unlike Riordan's earlier books which dealt with mythology, Daughter of the Deep is a Retrofuturism science fiction novel set in a contemporary timeline of the world of Jules Verne's books Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas and The Mysterious Island. This is a derivative work, featuring machinery, tools and settings described in Verne's ...
Rick Riordan's seventh Percy Jackson book, 'Wrath of the Triple Goddess,' hit bookshelves on Sept. 24
An editorial team in Scholastic came up with the idea of an interactive series with online games and asked Rick Riordan to write the first book. [46] Riordan agreed because he thought it was a good idea, and as a middle school teacher he loved making history enjoyable for younger readers. [47] [48] The project was kept secret for about two ...
The next big thing in Hollywood was created by a middle school teacher from Texas. To his fans, he’s Uncle Rick. In the crowd of a Los Angeles theater, where Uncle Rick has stopped on his most ...
Shortly after the book's publication, Riordan spoke at the 30 May Evening with Children's Booksellers, as part of the 2008 BookExpo America. [17] [18] At this time, the Percy Jackson series was the third bestselling children's book series in America, behind the Twilight Saga and The Clique series, according to Publishers Weekly. [19]