FERNANDO A. TORRES
Opening the globe

Fernando A. Torres, novelist and composer

Novelist & Composer

Cinematic fiction, an original score for every book, and the journeys between two worlds that become the stories.
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An antique globe of dragons Fernando Torres
The thesis

Every story is a crossing between worlds.

A television executive who became a novelist. An American who lives in a Kyoto machiya. A writer who scores his own books and gives his fictional characters real recordings . The work lives on the border between screen and page, East and West, the invented and the true — and it invites you across.

Kyoto
Kyoto, Japan
The old capital
The author in Colmar, France
Colmar, France
On the road
Yoichi, Hokkaido
Hokkaido
A Highland dream, in Japan
Setsubun oni dance
Heian Shrine
The demons dance
Three novels
A Habit of Resistance
France · 1944

A Habit of Resistance

Occupied France had a nun problem.

A small convent takes on the German occupation with prayer, an antique arsenal, and a French Bulldog of deeply negotiable loyalty. A best-selling comic novel that finds light in history's darkest hour — charming where others would merely shock.

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The Shadow That Endures
Britain → the multiverse

The Shadow That Endures

Some antiques choose their collector.

A young Scot buys a globe in an antique shop, finds a white stone within, and is delivered into a multiverse of dragons and paladins. Famous for its world-building — and the only novel with its own full symphony.

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More Than Alive
Tokyo · 2042

More Than Alive

She never wanted to be an idol. Or to fight a demon in Tokyo.

Alice Suzuki is newly dead — and newly a harvester of souls. Her first case: an idol dead inside a VR game, a drug that dissolves disbelief, and a shadow-demon with ambitions. A neon meditation on reality, attachment, and love.

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The score
Every book arrives with its own music .

A composer before he was a novelist, Torres writes songs for the books and, for The Shadow That Endures , an entire symphony — its first movement alone runs to ninety-three tracks. Best heard after reading, so the story arrives first.

Akari — Eternal Idol album cover
The invented, made real

Akari is fictional. Her albums are not.

The idol at the heart of More Than Alive has real, released recordings, brought to life through the author's original compositions. A character who stepped out of the novel and into a recording studio — and, in the French songs of A Habit of Resistance , she is not the only one. The border between the story and the world is thinner than it looks.

Professor Cornelius Bramblewick

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A fussy Oxford scholar-in-residence — foremost authority on the works of Fernando A. Torres, and delighted to be affronted by your literary questions.

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