ANTHONY CHARLES [TONY] THORNE MBE Education: Technological to M.I.Mech.E and F.I.Nuc.E., London, UK. Occupations: MD, Spembly Technical Products Ltd., UK. CEO, Dynatech Microbiological Systems. Switzerland, Germany, France and UK. MD, Microsystems Ltd., Guernsey, Channel Islands. CEO, Enterprise Software. Patents: Very High Temperature Furnaces, Breathing Valves, Microbiological Assay Components. Short stories published to date: SF, Fantasy etc.: Stories in SF magazines and websites including NEBULA, TBSF and PLANET, ASTONISHING STORIES, AXXON MAGAZINE (Argentina) Book Publications include, BILL's HELICAL BLUES, MACABRE TALES, ROBOTS INCLUDED, THE TENERIFE TALL TALES TRILOGY, TALL SF TALES FOR TEENS, anthologies (Etcetera Press), POINTS OF VIEW series of near future SF novels(Caliburn Press, USA)  Fact To Fiction, THE SINGULARITY IS COMING, (Etcetera Press and PTPress, Beijing, China) Auto-Biographical and Satire, BEST SELLING AUTHOR PLAN, HOW TO BE A TOP EXECUTIVE,THE QUALITY OF LIFE, THE JUNIOR PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, The POINTS OF VIEW series [Etcetera Press] Awards: Prizes, Short Story Competitions 2001-2004, (www.literaryagent.co.uk) and (mid-atlantic horror professionals) Poetry: SECOND OPINION [The Poets Yearbook], [2nd edition Etcetera Press] SHOWCASE, Guernsey Poets anthology. [Etcetera Press] Many others, featured in small magazines, on TV, and in a BBC Radio program. pLUS 2 awards in New York Book Festivals. Tech. Papers: Nuclear Protection (4), Very High Temperature Processing (2), Very Low Temperature Processing and Instrumentation (2). New Developments in Eye Cryosurgery. New York Book Festivsl awards (2). Chinese publisher of THE SINGULARITY IS COMING is PTPress, the IT Books Division of the Chinese Ministry of Information.   

MBE from the Queen for developments in Low Temperature (Cryo)Surgery instruments.