Raymond F. Jones

Raymond Fisher Jones (15 November 1915 – 24 January 1994) was an American science fiction author. He is best known for his 1952 novel, This Island Earth, which was adapted into the 1955 film This Island Earth.

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Career

Jones was born at Salt Lake City, Utah, and he was a Mormon from birth.[1]

His career was at its peak during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. His stories were published mainly in magazines such as Thrilling Wonder Stories, Astounding Stories, and Galaxy. His short story Noise Level is known as one of his best works. His short story "The Alien Machine", first published in the June, 1949 Thrilling Wonder Stories, was later expanded into the novel This Island Earth, along with two other short stories, "The Shroud of Secrecy", and "The Greater Conflict", known as The Peace Engineers Trilogy, featuring the character Cal Meacham. Jones also wrote the story upon which the episode "The Children's Room" was based for the television program Tales of Tomorrow in 1952.

He died at Sandy, Utah, in 1994.

Bibliography

Novels and collections
Short stories
  • Test of the Gods, Astounding Science Fiction (September, 1941)
  • The Children's Room (1942)
  • Starting Point (1942)
  • Swimming Lesson (1943)
  • Pacer (1943)
  • Fifty Million Monkeys (1943)
  • Utility (1944) [as by David Anderson]
  • Renaissance series (1944)
  • Deadly Host (1945)
  • Correspondence Course (1945)
  • Black Market (1946)
  • Forecast (1946)
  • The Cat and the King (1946)
  • The Toymaker (1946)
  • The Seven Jewels of Chamar (1946)
  • Pete Can Fix It (1947)
  • The Martian Circe (1947)
  • The Model Shop (1947)
  • The Person from Porlock (1947)
  • The Alien Machine, featuring Cal Meacham (1949)
  • Production Test (1949)
  • The Shroud of Secrecy, featuring Cal Meacham (1949)
  • Outpost Infinity (1950)
  • The Greater Conflict, featuring Cal Meacham (1950)
  • Regulations Provide (1950)
  • Encroachment (1950)
  • Portrait of Narcissus (1950)
  • Sunday is Three Thousand Years Away (1950)
  • The Cybernetic Brains (1950)
  • Discontinuity (1950)
  • Tools of the Trade (1950)
  • A Stone and a Spear (1950)
  • Divide We Fall. . . (1950)
  • I Tell You Three Times (1951)
  • "... As Others See Us" (1951)
  • Alarm Reaction (1951)
  • The Wrong Side of Paradise (1951)
  • Seed (1951)
  • The Farthest Horizon (1952)
  • Collision (1952)
  • Doomsday's Color-Press (1952)
  • Noise Level (1952)
  • Canterbury April (1952)
  • The Moon Is Death (1953)
  • Intermission Time (1953)
  • Trade Secret (1953)
  • The Colonists (1954)
  • The Unlearned (1954)
  • The School (1954)
  • The Gift of the Gods (1955)
  • Cubs of the Wolf (1955)
  • Human Error (1956)
  • Academy for Pioneers (1956)
  • The Deviates (1956)
  • The Non-Statistical Man (1956)
  • The Thinking Machine (1956)
  • A Matter of Culture (1956)
  • The Gardener (1957)
  • The Star Dream (1957)
  • The Strad Effect (1958)
  • The Memory of Mars (1961)
  • The Great Gray Plague (1962)
  • Stay Off the Moon! (1962)
  • Rider in the Sky (1964)
  • Rat Race (1966)
  • Subway to the Stars (1968)
  • The Laughing Lion (1973)
  • Pet (1973)
  • The Lights of Mars (1973)
  • A Bowl of Biskies Makes a Growing Boy (1973)
  • The Lions of Rome (1973)
  • Time Brother (1973)
  • Reflection of a Star (1974)
  • Flauna (1974)
  • The Touch of Your Hand (1974)
  • Death Eternal (1978)

References

  1. ^ "Meet the author". The Unofficial Raymond F. Jones Website. http://raymondfjones.tripod.com/meettheauthor.htm. 

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