Scott Westerfeld develops software, like his father, and composes music for modern dances. Also, from time to time, the writer is a ghost writer (literary Negro), which, according to Scott, looks like "driving someone else's car, very, very quickly and for a lot of money": "I could tell you what famous authors I worked for, but then I would have to kill you all!". The author's debut novel, Polymorph, was published in 1997, followed by Fine Prey (1998) and Evolution's Darling (2000), but none of them brought much recognition to the author. The latter, however, was awarded a "special mention" (special citation) when announcing the results of Philip K. Dick Award (2001) and was included in the New York Times list of the Notable Book for 2000. In 2003, it was time to “try happiness” of the fantastic dilogy “Sequence”, a year later the first novel of the mystical trilogy “Midnight” appeared “The Secret Hour”. This time the writer was lucky - the books brought him popularity, and almost every subsequent novel became a bestseller.