Austin Torney
Biography
Austin began writing for real around the age of forty, a respite from working as an Information Engineer in the field of Computer Science, doing programming, an art, as it turned out. He calls himself a humanist, and is one who enjoys the liberal arts, utilizing science, for it pervades every discipline. He is currently retired and lives in the mountains of Poughquag, NY, near the Appalachian Trail. He enjoys tennis, writing, fun, humor, thinking, sleeping, poetry, music, dining, travel, romance, reading, swimming, and life.
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Books
The Kiss That Never Dies
by Austin Torney
Price: $2.99 USD. 28790 words.
Published on May 28, 2012. Fiction.
The sequel to ‘Ageless Times’. The trilogy is complete, that began with ‘The Triumph Of Life, Love, and Being’. It is An Exploration of the Joys of the Human Condition and the Astounding Secrets of the Universe and the Mind Through the Life of a Loving Couple Engaged in the Ultimate Relationship Across the Centuries and into the Future.
The Kiss That Never Dies Illustrated
by Austin Torney
Price: $3.99 USD. 29220 words.
Published on May 28, 2012. Fiction.
Color illustrated. The sequel to ‘Ageless Times’. The trilogy is complete, that began with ‘The Triumph Of Life, Love, and Being’. It is An Exploration of the Joys of the Human Condition and the Astounding Secrets of the Universe and the Mind Through the Life of a Loving Couple Engaged in the Ultimate Relationship Across the Centuries and into the Future.
Into the Lands Of the Gods
by Austin Torney
Price: $1.99 USD. 10030 words.
Published on May 25, 2012. Nonfiction.
Color illustrated.
Into the realm of supernatural figmentations
I drifted off, within my newest imagination,
To interview all the living Gods there,
Some who’ve left and some yet ruling everywhere.
An epic.
The End Of the Earth
by Austin Torney
Price: $0.99 USD. 3400 words.
Published on May 24, 2012. Fiction.
Color illustrated. Charon notes the 2012 doom of increased global warming, followed by a nuclear winter, as inferred from some of the still speaking souls sent to Hell.
Austino’s Holy Quest
by Austin Torney
Price: $1.99 USD. 6550 words.
Published on May 23, 2012. Fiction.
Color illustrated. Austino is sent on a quest to convert England to Christianity, by Pope Gregory, spending 20 years traveling and enjoying life. Comedic but insightful.
In another tale, he appears, somehow, at the new and greatly reformed Vatican City, in the year 2031, along with Pope Beverly and many old friends.
The Poetic Universe
by Austin Torney
Price: $2.99 USD. 120340 words.
Published on May 22, 2012. Nonfiction.
Very large compilation of universal investigations of being and the Cosmos. A few color illustrations.
Earth On the Edge Of Forever
by Austin Torney
Price: $1.99 USD. 42330 words.
Published on May 21, 2012. Fiction.
This is the sequel to 'Butterflies At the Edge Of Forever. They go on to more ultimate adventures, many of which reflect the state of the world today, and its possible futures, involving terrorism, global warming, and nuclear happenings. The story is a smooth mix of wisdom, meaning, adventure, drama, humor, intelligence operations, and vision, wrapped into an astounding and astonishing tale.
Magical Moments
by Austin Torney
Price: $1.99 USD. 2310 words.
Published on March 23, 2012. Nonfiction.
Color Illustrated. Magical scenes composited as they really could be on a perfect day. Revelations of nature. It wasn’t easy getting birds to pose for me and waiting for a glorious sunset or sunrise, so I used Photoshop to create realities that could very well be.
Willing the Will That Wills?
by Austin Torney
Price: Free! 2320 words.
Published on March 20, 2012. Nonfiction.
Free. Color Illustrated. Is the will free, not depending on anything, or fixed, depending on something, such as who one has become? This is not to say that the will is not dynamic, one fixed state being able to progress to another fixed state, via learning.
The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam—Illustrated by Austin P. Torney 5
by Austin Torney
Price: $0.99 USD. 2320 words.
Published on March 20, 2012. Fiction.
Translated by Edward FitzGerald. Vol. 5 of 5. Vols. 2 and 4 are free. 114 quatrains are presented via a merge of the first four editions of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The 80+ illustrations, all in color, are a mixture of ancient and modern styles, ranging from Austin’s own nature compositions to his enhancement of engravings and drawings obtained from very old books.
The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam—Illustrated by Austin P. Torney 4
by Austin Torney
Price: Free! 2320 words.
Published on March 20, 2012. Fiction.
Free. Translated by Edward FitzGerald. Vol. 4 of 5. Vols. 2 and 4 are free. 114 quatrains are presented via a merge of the first four editions of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The 80+ illustrations, all in color, are a mixture of ancient and modern styles, ranging from Austin’s own nature compositions to his enhancement of engravings and drawings obtained from very old books.
The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam—Illustrated by Austin P. Torney 3
by Austin Torney
Price: $0.99 USD. 2320 words.
Published on March 20, 2012. Fiction.
Translated by Edward FitzGerald. Vol. 3 of 5. Vols. 2 and 4 are free. 114 quatrains are presented via a merge of the first four editions of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The 80+ illustrations, all in color, are a mixture of ancient and modern styles, ranging from Austin’s own nature compositions to his enhancement of engravings and drawings obtained from very old books.
The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam—Illustrated by Austin P. Torney 2
by Austin Torney
Price: Free! 2320 words.
Published on March 20, 2012. Fiction.
Free. Translated by Edward FitzGerald. Vol. 2 of 5. Vols. 2 and 4 are free. 114 quatrains are presented via a merge of the first four editions of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The 80+ illustrations, all in color, are a mixture of ancient and modern styles, ranging from Austin’s own nature compositions to his enhancement of engravings and drawings obtained from very old books.
The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam—Illustrated by Austin P. Torney 1
by Austin Torney
Price: $0.99 USD. 4360 words.
Published on March 20, 2012. Fiction.
Translated by Edward FitzGerald. Vol. 1 of 5. Vols. 2 and 4 are free. 114 quatrains are presented via a merge of the first four editions of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The 80+ illustrations, all in color, are a mixture of ancient and modern styles, ranging from Austin’s own nature compositions to his enhancement of engravings and drawings obtained from very old books.
To the Depths of the Deep
by Austin Torney
Price: Free! 3330 words.
Published on March 18, 2012. Nonfiction.
(2.00 from 1 review)
Color illustrated epic in which we travel, down, down, to the deep, where the One pervades, all alone, through life's portal, the theory of everything that we've opened the door to.
Elfin Legends Illustrated 4
by Austin Torney
Price: $0.99 USD. 7490 words.
Published on March 16, 2012. Fiction.
Color Illustrated. Volume 4 of 4. An epically rendered and fabulous journey through the lore and legendary worlds of phantoms and phantasms. One of my best illustrated epics.
Elfin Legends Illustrated 3
by Austin Torney
Price: $0.99 USD. 7490 words.
Published on March 16, 2012. Fiction.
Color Illustrated. Volume 3 of 4. An epically rendered and phantasmic journey through the just out of sight worlds of phantoms and phantasms. One of my best illustrated epics.
Elfin Legends Illustrated 2
by Austin Torney
Price: $0.99 USD. 7490 words.
Published on March 16, 2012. Fiction.
Color Illustrated. Volume 2 of 4. An epically rendered and fantastic journey through the otherworlds and in-between worlds of phantoms and phantasms. One of my best illustrated epics.
Elfin Legends Illustrated 1
by Austin Torney
Price: $0.99 USD. 7490 words.
Published on March 16, 2012. Fiction.
Color Illustrated. Volume 1 of 4. An epically rendered and fabulous journey through the otherworlds and netherworlds of phantoms and phantasms. One of my best illustrated epics.
'Being' Explained
by Austin Torney
Price: Free! 3520 words.
Published on March 16, 2012. Nonfiction.
(2.00 from 1 review)
Free. Why the reality of being is the way it is.
The Live Sea Scrolls II
by Austin Torney
Price: $0.99 USD. 2320 words.
Published on March 16, 2012. Nonfiction.
Glorious color-illustrated scrolls of sayings to inspire living and to celebrate the human condition. Vol II, 26-50.
Brain Waves Illustrated 2
by Austin Torney
Price: $0.99 USD. 2320 words.
Published on March 16, 2012. Nonfiction.
Color Illustrated. Vol 2; 26-50. Astounding revelations of the mysteries of the mind and the universe. What is Consciousness and Awareness? Where did the Universe come from? What makes the mind operate as it does? What is Meditation? What is our Destiny? How do the senses work?
Reality Recomposed
by Austin Torney
Price: $0.99 USD. 2310 words.
Published on March 15, 2012. Nonfiction.
Magical scenes that one might find on the perfect day at the right time. With sayings. Color Illustrated.
Brain Waves Illustrated 1
by Austin Torney
Price: $0.99 USD. 2320 words.
Published on March 15, 2012. Nonfiction.
Color Illustrated. Vol 1; 1-25. Astounding revelations of the mysteries of the mind and the universe. What is Consciousness and Awareness? Where did the Universe come from? What makes the mind operate as it does? What is Meditation? What is our Destiny? How do the senses work?
The Greenless World
by Austin Torney
Price: $0.99 USD. 7960 words.
Published on March 15, 2012. Fiction.
Marooned on an arid planetoid, when the Earth is destroyed, Patrick meets the alien, Serena, and tries to explain many things that she has never seen, foremost among them the color ‘green’.
Love's Art
by Austin Torney
Price: $0.99 USD. 2310 words.
Published on March 15, 2012. Nonfiction.
Artwork and sayings on love.
The Illumination of Science—Galileo
by Austin Torney
Price: $0.99 USD. 4400 words.
Published on March 15, 2012. Nonfiction.
The life of Galileo. Color Illustrated.
‘Twas here, his final resting place,
In a church…
At last enshrined as the Father of Science.
Embellished, as the Master in stone,
He’s ever looking up
Whence forth came the light
From the starry skies.
The Meadows of Heaven
by Austin Torney
Price: $0.99 USD. 3330 words.
Published on March 15, 2012. Nonfiction.
Color Illustrated. How the universe formed its galaxies, and more.
Fare thee well, fine friends,
For we are some of
The luckiest sons and daughters of being
In a rare universe well done.
The Theory of Everything— All the Way Up Illustrated
by Austin Torney
Price: $1.99 USD. 51170 words.
Published on March 14, 2012. Nonfiction.
Color Illustrated. Everything explained, its source, its Why and How, and then the Where, What, Then and When, leading on up to the Who of being.
The TOE must not only encompass the unification of the forces, which is the GUT (the Grand Unification theory), but it must also demonstrate why anything exists at all, and how it does so, and, furthermore, how that ties in to what we have become.
The Vault of Everything
by Austin Torney
Price: Free! 3070 words.
Published on March 14, 2012. Nonfiction.
Free. A visit to the Library of Babel, where every possible book that could exist may be found.
Color Symbols—The Lore and Legends of the Colors
by Austin Torney
Price: $0.99 USD. 3260 words.
Published on March 14, 2012. Nonfiction.
How and why the colors work, oppositely and individually.
Well, as colors go, so, then, do we, see:
Hues are just differing wavelengths of light
That the brain interprets, in its own right,
For some natural colored necessity.
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