Ron Thomas was an Australian Airforce Officer and served in the Malay Emergency in the 1950's. He won inventor of the year 1988 for a method for typing Chinese characters with only five keys. It is now used by Chinese persons for typing sms text in mobile phones. Works to date are "POPE LUTHER ZUGZWANG I" (or THANK GOD I'M AN ATHEIST", and "LET THE GAME BEGIN". A humerous introduction to chess for young folk. His next book, is a humerous, slightly science fiction novel, "THE KUSANAGI SWORD" set mainly in Japan. This will be followed by "RETURN TO REDLAND FLAT" which is also a humerous work. The email address for Ron is [email protected] - Mobile (cell) phone 0405656603.