Ricardo Pinto

Ricardo Pinto ( born 1961 in Lisbon, Portugal) is an author of " The elect " his fantasy trilogy " The stone circle of the chameleon " published his novel, it gained international prominence.

Life

Ricardo Pinto was born in 1961 in Lisbon, but already at the age of 6 years he and his family left Portugal and moved to London; shortly thereafter continue to Dundee in Scotland. 1979, at the age of 18 years Pinto started a maths degree at the University of Dundee. Actually, he would have preferred to study architecture or ancient history, but he had been discouraged and so the latter was only his lifelong passion. During his studies in the years 1991/1992, the ideas began to manifest itself " The stone circle of Chameleons " for Pinto gradually.

When Ricardo Pinto in 1983 moved to London and was looking for a job, he learned of a job offer as a programmer for computer games and was unceremoniously pretend to more knowledge in this area, as was indeed the case and got the job. After a few years in this company Pinto moved a couple of times the job and eventually ended up at the company "Fantasy Forge ", which had established a friend of his. There his job was no longer the sole programming of computer games, but also the designing of these virtual worlds in book format. So Ricardo Pinto wrote his first two books, " Kryomek " and " Hivestone " as accompanying plants.

This excursion into the world of writing reminded him again to his hitherto unwritten ideas and Pinto began writing in " The Elect ". After years of working on this novel, he presented an early version of the book his agent Victoria Hobbs. This helped him to revise the book and placed it in front of various publishers until it was taken by Bantam Press and published in 1999.

Even before the publication date of the book in Britain succeeded Ricardo Pinto to sell the publishing rights to Germany, the Netherlands and the USA. Shortly thereafter, " The elect " then also translated into Portuguese.

2002 Pinto finally published the second part of his trilogy, " The Outcasts ". The third volume was released on 26 March 2009 in the UK under the name The Third God. A translation into German was not performed since the Klett - Cotta probably saw no sufficient market because of the long distance to the previous book.

Works

  • Kryomek (1992)
  • Hivestone (1994)
  • The stone circle of chameleons ( trilogy; Org " The Stone Dance of The Chameleon " )
  • The elect (Vol. 1; engl " The Chosen ."; 1999), Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-608-93241-0
  • The Outcasts (Vol. 2; engl " The Standing Dead ."; 2002), Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-608-93242-9
  • The Third God ( Stone Dance of the Chameleon ), Bantam Press, 2009 ( not yet in German )

Computer Games

  • Gyron (1985 )
  • Elite ( 1986)
  • Hive (1987 )
  • Cybercon III (1991)
  • Stunt Iceland (1991 )
  • Nightmare Circus (1995 )
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