Dennis Feltham Jones
Dennis Feltham Jones (born July 15, 1918 in London , United Kingdom , † April 1, 1981 ) was a British science fiction writer who published his novels as DF Jones .
Life
Jones was a Commander in the British Navy and lived in Cornwall . The year of birth is also given as 1915 or 1917.
His debut Colossus , published in 1966, was his most successful book and is also considered to be his best. The eponymous Colossus is a giant computer that the US government has given responsibility for the nuclear arsenal. The Soviet Union has now built a very similar computer, and when the two artificial brains gain consciousness and begin to communicate, they conclude that their fused minds can run the world far better than humans can. Forbin, the designer of the Colossus , is trying with other scientists from the underground to wrest world domination from the computer. For the first time, the book deals with a topic that was later taken up in the SF, among other things by the Terminator films, where the Skynet computer is much less benevolent than Colossus .
The project of the Colossus tube computer of the same name, used by the British during the Second World War for cryptanalysis , is said to have been known to Jones.
The novel was filmed in 1970 as Colossus: The Forbin Project directed by Joseph Sargent .
In 1969 Jones was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).
bibliography
- Colossus (series)
- 1 Colossus (1966)
- German: Colossus . Goldmann Space Papers # 094, 1968.
- 2 The Fall of Colossus (1974)
- English: The fall of Colossus . Goldmann Weltraum-Taschenbücher # 0214, 1975, ISBN 3-442-23214-7 .
- 3 Colossus and the Crab (1977)
- Novels
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Implosion (1967)
- German: Implosion . Goldmann Space Papers # 116, 1970.
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Don't Pick the Flowers (1971, also as Denver Is Missing )
- German: Let the flowers stand. Goldmann Weltraum-Taschenbücher # 147, 1972, ISBN 3-442-23147-7 .
- The Floating Zombie (1975)
- Earth Has Been Found (1979, also as Xeno )
- Bound in Time (1982)
- Short stories
- Coffee Break (1968)
- Black Snowstorm (1969)
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The Tocsin (1970)
- German: alarm bell. In: Wulf H. Bergner (Ed.): Storms on Siros. Heyne SF&F # 3237, 1971.
literature
- Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 221.
- Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 588.
- John Clute : Jones, D F. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated April 4, 2017.
- Don D'Ammassa : Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Facts On File, New York 2005, ISBN 0-8160-5924-1 , p. 203.
- Robert Reilly: Jones, D (ennis) F (eltham) . In: Noelle Watson, Paul E. Schellinger: Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. St. James Press, Chicago 1991, ISBN 1-55862-111-3 , pp. 416 f.
- Donald H. Tuck : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1968. Advent, Chicago 1974, ISBN 0-911682-20-1 , p. 246.
Web links
- Literature by and about Dennis Feltham Jones in the catalog of the German National Library
- Dennis Feltham Jones in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Dennis Feltham Jones in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Dennis Feltham Jones in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Works by and about Dennis Feltham Jones at Open Library
- DF Jones in Fantastic Fiction (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ DF Jones. Fantastic Fiction, accessed September 14, 2014 .
- ↑ https://viaf.org/viaf/20213682/
- ^ Colossus: The Forbin Project / Trivia .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jones, Dennis Feltham |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jones, DF |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British science fiction writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 15, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London , UK |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 1, 1981 |