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Tony Thorne

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Tony Thorne MBE, a Chartered Design Engineer, built up a research and development company in Kent, England. Its eventual worldwide commercial success led to him being awarded the MBE by the Queen. Now retired, he writes speculative, science and fantasy, fiction and has published over fifteen collections of short stories, including the award winning TENERIFE TALL TALES trilogy, and MACABRE TALES. Also ROBOTS INCLUDED, TALL SF TALES FOR TEENAGERS, THREE KINDS OF CULTURE SHOCK, all now available, as eBooks and paperbacks from AMAZON, B & N, WH Smith, etc.. His first novel, POINTS OF VIEW (near future espionage) was published in the USA, by Eternal Press, Santa Rosa, CA, They also accepted Book 2 but were taken over soon after. Then things fell ...more

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Near future SciFi espionage series..!

eBook One of my "Points of View" series is free this month from Smashwords. I have some glowing reviews but need more.
See: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...

Let me know if you get it and I'll send you an ebook copy of Book Two... free. Any format.

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Published on July 31, 2018 07:45 Tags: nanotech, page-turner, scifi, sf, thriller
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“In my business endeavours, over the years, I have discovered that there are only a few ways of doing something correctly… but many thousands of ways of doing it incorrectly. This explains why things go wrong, most of the time” – Tony Thorne MBE, How to be a Top Executive, & The Singularity is coming (Etcetera Press)”
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