Langdon Jones

Langdon Jones (born 1942 in Dover ) is a British science fiction writer and editor. His work is closely related to the New Wave of British SF and New Worlds magazine .

Jones' short stories have all appeared in New Worlds, and besides being a contributor, he worked there in several roles, including at times as editor. The short stories, which Jones said owed more to Kafka than Heinlein , appeared in 1972 in The Eye of the Lens . His anthology The New SF (1969, German Neue SF , 2 vols.) Is considered an exemplary collection of texts from the New Wave . Together with Michael Moorcock he edited the anthology The Nature of the Catastrophe (1971, extended new edition as The New Nature of the Catastrophe , 1993). In 1970 he published a reconstructed version of Mervyn Peake's Titus Alone .

bibliography

collection

• The Eye of the Lens (1972)

Anthologies

• The New SF (1969)
  • German: Neue SF. 2 Vols. 1973. Vol. 1: Fischer Orbit # 31, ISBN 3-436-01768-X . Vol. 2: Fischer Orbit # 32, ISBN 3-436-01779-5 .
• The Nature of the Catastrophe (1971, with Michael Moorcock)
• The New Nature of the Catastrophe (1993, with Michael Moorcock)

Short stories

• Stormwater Tunnel (1964)
• I Remember, Anita ... (1964)
• The Empathy Machine (1965)
• The Leveller (1965)
• The Music Makers (1965)
• Transient (1965)
  • German: transit. In: Herbert W. Franke (Ed.): Science Fiction Story Reader 2. Heyne SF&F # 3398, 1974, ISBN 3-453-30293-1 .
• The Great Clock (1966)
  • German: The big clock. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): The big clock. Heyne SF&F # 3541, 1977, ISBN 3-453-30434-9 .
• A Reverie of Bone (1967)
• Biographical Note on Ludwig Van Beethoven II (1968)
• The Coming of the Sun (1968)
• The Eye of the Lens (1968)
  • German: The view through the lens. In: Joachim Körber (Ed.): New Worlds. Sphinx (Edition 23), 1983, ISBN 3-85914-410-3 .
• The Hall of Machines (1968)
  • German: The machines. In: Frank Rainer Scheck : Koitus 80. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1970.
• Symphony No. 6 in C Minor "The Tragic" -by Ludwig Van Beethoven II (1968)
  • German: Symphony No. 6, C minor, 'Die Tragische', by Ludwig van Beethoven II. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Hrsg.): Science Fiction Story Reader 5. Heyne SF&F # 3473, 1975, ISBN 3-453-30355 -5 .
• The Garden of Delights (1969)
• The Time Machine (1969)
  • German: The time machine. In: Damon Knight (Ed.): Damon Knight's Collection 11. Fischer Orbit # 29, 1973, ISBN 3-436-01769-8 .
• Epilogue: Jerry and Miss Brunner at the Beginning (1993)

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 221 f.
• 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, Langdon. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated April 4, 2017.

Web links

• Literature by and about Langdon Jones in the catalog of the German National Library
• Langdon Jones in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by and about Langdon Jones at Open Library
• Langdon Jones (personal webpage, accessed March 30, 2018)