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FUTURE REASSURED
Tony Thorne MBE
Publisher:
Etcetera Press
Genre(s):
Science Fiction and Macabre
Format:
Print/PDF
Price (Print): $9.45 | Price (Elec): $2.75
Length:
130 |
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DESCRIPTION |
A first collection of 28 speculative SF and Macabre tales, including several prize winners.
"This anthology by Tony Thorne, MBE, like all good science fiction is firmly grounded in day-to-day existence. However, many of his pieces are written with tongue planted firmly in cheek. The relationship between robot and man is a recurring theme in this collection, with the most memorable treatment, “Godlike,” telling the tale of a millionaire setting up home on an island with only “savages” for company. The “civilized” man takes great pleasure in using technology to awe the natives, only to realize too late that it is not him they have taken as their god.
Perhaps the most timely story, is “Deviant. In this tale, which draws on Asimov’s laws of robotics, a prejudiced engineer modifies the programming of some specialised robots to redefine humanity and produces a whole new level of racial profiling. In this tale, Thorne’s talent makes itself most evident."
- Hannah Emery, New Jersey, USA
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About the Author(s):
Tony Thorne MBE is an Englishman, born in London, but now living in Austria and Tenerife. For developments in low temperature (cryo)surgery and high temperature furnaces, for processing carbon fibre, the Queen awarded him an MBE. Earlier in life he, wrote science fiction and humorous stories, and was 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 business adventures, including the pioneering development of AI computer software for business applications, he is now an enthusiastic author of quirky speculative Science Fiction and Macabre tales, with over 90 stories on file. |
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