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 apart and after nearly 2 years of no, or inadequate, progress, he accepted their offer to self-publish the series himself, with a new cover theme. Books 1 to 3 are now available from Amazon (eBook and paperback) and Book 4 will be later in 2018.