Tony Thorne MBE

I've just completed (prior to editing) my first quirky novel, and this cover for it -

POINT OF VIEW - Synopsis:

Horace Mayberry, an inexperienced introvert, and blind since his early teens, is fitted with bionic eyes, using advanced nanotechnology. They are inherently intelligent, but controlled by his brain to develop new facilities as different stress conditions dictate. After extensive training, he is recruited into a secret government department and accompanied by an experienced extrovert agent, he embarks on a series of adventures, and unusual missions.
As his confidence and abilities grow, his character and personality also develop. He learns how to cope with all kinds of situations, including computer hacking, meeting a girl friend, and being abducted more than once by the members of a sinister international organisation who are after the secrets of the company that developed the bionic eyes.

Furthermore, there's an article you might like to look at, lower down now, on ...   http://www.tenerifemagazine.com/talking-tenerife/from-mount-teide-to-hollywood-hills.htm
 

NEW YORK -  The 2009 Beach Book Festival issued a call for entries for its annual program spotlighting the hottest reads on the beach for this summer season ... and the results are now posted on ....  http://www.prlog.org/10261704-2009-beach-book-festival-names-winners.html

SCIENCE FICTION, WINNER: Tenerife Tall Tales – Tony Thorne MBE

Here's the first in a series of three collections ... seventeen tall Tales with a twist in the Tail, and an introduction by the legendary Harry Harrison himself!  This collection is published in the USA by Whortleberry Press, and in Europe by Etcetera Press. It is also now available as an Amazon KINDLE Book item, and also available from all the usual outlets, including Barnes & Noble, WH Smith etc. at around $13 (USA dollars) or 7 UK pounds, or about €10 (euros) ... see the TENERIFE Tales link further down in the left column for more information.

Click http://www.lulu.com/content/2022243 to order now.   For review, and signed, copies use the Contact Me link on the left, much lower down.  See also the Offers link on the left.

A couple of my SF poems are in the Abandoned Towers Magazine on their website ... http://www.cyberwizardproductions.com/AbandonedTowers/toc.html  - Once you're in there, just click the Poetry link you'll see on the right, then scroll down to the ancient tome picture and click it ... finally find my name and click it ...  GOOD LUCK!  But do have a look at everything else there, it's a classy magazine!

 Yes, here they are ...  E-Book review copies of the second and third collections in the series of three ... now available directly from me, prior to publication ... just send me an EMail .. using the Contact Me link!

The legendary, SF author Harry Harrison visited Tenerife in November 2007, for a magical week in the sun.  We had a truly great time together chatting about events and personalities, past and present.  He also read a review copy of my first volume of Tenerife Tall Tales, and honoured me with an introduction for it!  In May 2008, he was the chief Guest of Honour at the Eurocon, in Moscow ..!  For more about Harry, visit his website by entering his name in any search engine, to locate it ... and many other sites featuring him.  Photo by Colin Kirby, from the Tenerife Sun newspaper article about us.

Coming later, but advance review copies only are available - all the best Robot tales, many updated plus several new, including the longer title story;  now collected into one volume,  including:

KILLER – EQUALITY – BUGSIE 37 – LIFETIME  -  CLERICAL ERROR – GODLIKE – MONUMENT – TO BE CONTINUED – DEVIANT -TEETHING TROUBLE  – FREE RANGE etc.

MACABRE TALES and TALL SCIENCE FICTION TALES FOR 'TEENS 

 Both ready now as review copies only ... drop me an E-Mail ..?

It was the 29th European Science Fiction Convention, and it took place in Copenhagen over the weekend 21-23 September in 2007.  I believe there were over 600 visitors and delegates, and the programme was full and varied, and entertaining.  Yes, I was there, and met up with all the illustrious guest authors, in attendance, including Anne McCaffrey, Harry Harrison, Stephen Baxter, Zoran Livkovic, and many others.  Apart from the book signings, I took part in the masquerade Stage Show, performing my outrageous medical scientist routines, and was rewarded with some laughs, and even a couple of encores. (Photo by Carsten Riis, rest below with my camera ...!)

"Tony who?"  Yes, I did discover at least one fan of mine there ... and even made some new ones ...! and DV himself is insisting, "Buy your copy immediately ... or else ..!"

  The Convention Guests of Honour on their way to the City Hall Reception.  Harry Harrison, Anne McCaffrey, Stephen Baxter & Zoran Livkovic. The happy lady on the left looks after Anne.

This is it!  Creatures of Glass and Light, edited by Klaus AE Mogensen.  Now available in English from the Danish publisher, Science Fiction Cirklen, ISBN 978-87-90592-21-9 and with a superb cover by the famous astronomical artist David A Hardy.  I'm proud to mention that it has my prize winning macabre tale, Shape Shifted, included in it. 

An interesting site, still growing, is featuring five of my SF poems; as well as illustrating that macabre tale of mine THE POTTING SHED.  You can find them on ... http://www.scifinity.com/ 

Do check out this site,  http://www.aburt.com/ifiction/stories/ which apart from others therein, holds extracts from three of my SF tales.  If you like one, or more, of them the rest of it can be downloaded right away, and it is very inexpensive ...!

My tall SF tale TESTING TIME, illustrated and translated  into Spanish, appeared in the long established Argentine magazine AXXON -   Issue number 172.  So, if you know the language, check it out on - www.axxon.com.ar  or read it in English in my second collection FUTURE UNCERTAIN.