Ricardo Pinto (writer)
Ricardo Pinto (* 1961 in Lisbon , Portugal ) is a Portuguese-born computer game programmer and author. He wrote, among other things, the Fantasy - Trilogy The stone circle of the chameleon .
Life
Ricardo Pinto was born in Lisbon in 1961. At the age of six he left Portugal with his family and moved to London , shortly afterwards to Dundee in Scotland . At the age of 18, Pinto began studying mathematics at Dundee University in 1979 , although he would have preferred architecture or ancient history , which he had been advised not to do. These topics remained his lifelong passion. While still a student, he developed ideas for The Stone Circle of the Chameleon in 1981/1982 .
In 1983 Pinto moved to London. When applying for a job as a programmer for computer games , he pretended to have more knowledge in this area, as was indeed the case and got the job. After a few years of activity, Pinto changed jobs several times and finally stayed with the company "Fantasy Forge", which a friend of his had founded. There he was also responsible for designing virtual worlds in book format that went with the games. Pinto wrote his first two books, Kryomek and Hivestone as companions.
Following on from this, Pinto took up his previously unwritten ideas and began writing The Chosen . After years of working on this novel, he submitted it to his agent Victoria Hobbs. She helped him revise the book and submitted it to various publishers until it was taken from Bantam Press and published in 1999. It was also released in Germany, the USA, the Netherlands and Portugal.
In 2002 Pinto published the second part of his trilogy, The Outcasts . The third volume was released on March 26, 2009 in Great Britain under the name The Third God .
Works
Books
- Kryomek (1992)
- Hivestone (1994)
- The Stone Circle of the Chameleon (trilogy; Org. "The Stone Dance of The Chameleon")
- The Chosen (Vol. 1; "The Chosen"; 1999), Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-608-93241-0
- The Outcasts (Vol. 2; "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 Island (1991)
- Nightmare Circus (1995)
Web links
- Literature by and about Ricardo Pinto in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ricardo Pinto at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Ricardo Pinto in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
- Works by and about Ricardo Pinto (writer) at Open Library
- Official homepage with drawings by the author
Individual proof
- ^ Declaration by Ricardo Pinto on the third part of the stone circle of the chameleon ("no German edition ...") ( Memento from September 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pinto, Ricardo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lisbon |