Bio:Tony Thorne, MBE

Tony Thorne MBE is an Englishman, born and technically educated in London, England, but now living in Austria and, in the winters when he can, in the warmer Canary Island of Tenerife. He originally qualified as a chartered design engineer and subsequently created a well-known British company (now American owned) specialising in Applied Physics products. For developments in the field of low temperature (cryo)surgery instruments, and very high temperature furnaces, for processing carbon fibre, among other things, the Queen awarded him an MBE. Later he emigrated to Switzerland where he created, and became CEO of, the European Division of an American Corporation specialising in medical laboratory, and computer-related, products. Much earlier in life he, also wrote science fiction and humorous stories, was an active SF Fan, and a spare time lecturer for the British Interplanetary Society. He has since written papers and articles for several technical publications, and has held patents, in such varied fields as nuclear protection clothing, very high temperature processing, and microbiological assay laboratory equipment. After many subsequent business adventures, including the pioneering development of AI computer software for business applications, he is now an enthusiastic author of quirky speculative fiction, mostly tall Science Fiction and Macabre tales, with over 100 short stories on file … plus this novel.

His personal website is on …   www.tonythorne.com

Tony Thorne MBE’s other SF, Macabre and other, publications so far include -

TENERIFE – Tall Tales with a Twist, MORE TALL TENERIFE TALES, EVEN MORE TENERIFE TALL TALES, FUTURE REASSURED, FUTURE UNCERTAIN, MACABRE TALES, ROBOTS INCLUDED, TALL SF TALES FOR TEENS, SPELLBOUND, TIMELY ENCOUNTER, POINTS OF VIEW (YA Novel)-(Etcetera Press Publications)

Satire - HOW TO BE A TOP EXECUTIVE,  THE QUALITY OF LIFE, THE JUNIOR PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY(Etcetera Press Publications)

Poetry - SECOND OPINION [The Poets Yearbook], SHOWCASE –The Guernsey Poets (Editor/contributor), and the websites AUTHOR’S DEN, SCIFINITY, and CYBERWISE. Plus Stories, Poems & Articles in various magazines, Anthologies and websites, including PLANET, NEBULA, BSFM, BOOKS TO GO NOW, CATS AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE and SANTA'S GIVINGS & MISGIVINGS and STRANGE MYSTERIES II & III (Whortleberry Press Anthologies); SCIFINITY, CREATURES  OF GLASS  & LIGHT (The EuroCon2007 anthology),  AXXON (Argentina Magazine), SPICK, ORBIT, ART & PROSE, ALIEN SKIN MAGAZINE, ASTONISHING STORIES, and the Mid-Atlantic Horror Professionals website.