Robert Carter (writer)

Robert Carter (* 1955 in Newcastle-under-Lyme , Staffordshire , England ; † 2015 ) was a British writer of fantasy and historical novels .

Live and act

Robert Carter grew up in Sydney , Australia and later in Lancashire . He studied astrophysics at Newcastle University , where he began writing science fiction stories. After graduating, he worked in the oil industry in Dallas , Texas , and later on oil rigs in the Middle East and Africa, including on the "Ron Tappmeyer", which exploded in the Persian Gulf in October 1980 , killing 19 people. The work also took him to seldom visited areas such as the Rub al-Chali desert and parts of Equatorial Africa .

After working in the oil industry, he traveled to Europe and Asia, including East Berlin , Warsaw , Moscow and Leningrad . He rode the Trans-Siberian Railway and visited Japan , Hong Kong , Myanmar , India , Sri Lanka and Indonesia . On his return he worked for the BBC and became a freelance writer in London in 1986 .

Works

• Armada. Orion, London 1988, ISBN 978-1-8579-7409-6 .
  German: Armada. From the English by Monika Curths. List, Munich 1989, ISBN 978-3-471-77225-6 .
• Gentlemen of fortune. Sphere, London 1989, ISBN 978-0-7474-0195-7 .
• Talwar. Orion, London 1993, ISBN 978-1-8579-7434-8 .
  German: Talwar. Translated from the English by Dorothee Asendorf, Margarete Längfeld. List, Munich / Leipzig 1993, ISBN 978-3-471-77237-9 .
• Courage. Orion, London 1995, ISBN 978-1-8579-7632-8 .
  German: The lover of the sea. Translated from the English by Holger Wolandt. List, Munich / Leipzig 1997, ISBN 978-3-471-77239-3 . New edition: The song of the wind. Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1999, ISBN 978-3-404-12955-3 .
• Barbarians. Orion, London 1998, ISBN 978-0-7528-1696-8 .
  German: Taiping. Translated from the English by Werner Peterich . List, Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3-471-77245-4 . New edition: The Son of Heaven. Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2002, ISBN 978-3-404-14759-5 .

• Trilogy Language of Stones :

1. The Language of Stones. HarperCollins, London 2004, ISBN 978-0-00-716923-8 .
   English: The path of stones. Translated from the English by Ingrid Herrmann-Nytko. Heyne, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-453-52075-2 .
2. The Giants' Dance. HarperCollins, London 2005, ISBN 978-00-0716924-5 .
   German: King of the Giants. Translated from the English by Ingrid Herrmann-Nytko. Heyne, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-453-52114-8 .
3. Whitemantle. HarperCollins, London 2006, ISBN 978-00-0716927-6 .
   German: The child of winter. Translated from the English by Ingrid Herrmann-Nytko. Heyne, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-453-52115-5

Published on CreateSpace.com :

• Death Valley Scotty. 2012.
• Sheer Purgatory. 2014.
• The Deadly Playground, 1914. 2014.

Web links

• Literature by and about Robert Carter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Robert Carter in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Literature by and about Robert Carter in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Robert Carter on independentauthornetwork.com
• About Robert Carter (1955–2015) on bragmedallion.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Robert Carter on phantastik-couch.de
2. ↑ Death Valley Scotty on fantasticfiction.com
3. ↑ Sheer Purgatory on fantasticfiction.com
4. ↑ The Deadly Playground, 1914 at fantasticfiction.com