Ricardo Pinto
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Ricardo Pinto (Born 1961 in Lisbon, Portugal) is a computer game programmer and fantasy author.
His family moved to London when he was six and then to Dundee in Scotland. In 1979, he commenced a degree in Mathematics at the University of Dundee. In 1983, he moved to London to work as a programmer writing computer games. He moved back to Edinburgh and then to Bristol working on game design. He became interested in creating the plot for games and wrote Kryomek and Hivestone as support material for tabletop wargames. When gaming proved unprofitable he started to write seriously and began work on The Chosen (1999). This forms the first part of a trilogy The Stone Dance of the Chameleon. The second volume The Standing Dead was published in 2002. The third volume is expected but the publication deadline has already passed. The delay was partly caused by the authors' house in Edinburgh being severely damaged by fire.
The trilogy concerns the harrowing experiences of the young and inexperienced heir to a ruling dynasty who is suddenly taken from his protected childhood and thrust into a cruel society where he must fight for his family honour, his position and his life.
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