Neil R. Jones

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Neil Ronald Jones (born May 29, 1909 in Fulton , New York , † February 15, 1988 there ) was an American science fiction writer .

Life

Jones was the son of Clarence E. and Etta Jones, nee Davis. From 1942 to 1945 he served in the US Army . In 1945 he married Gwendoline Rees (died 1964). After the war, he worked for New York State Unemployment Insurance until he retired in 1973.

His first short story was The Death's Head Meteor , which appeared in Pulp magazine Air Wonder Stories in 1930, where the word " astronaut " was used for the first time in an SF story . The following year, The Jameson Satellite , the first of the Professor Jameson stories, was one of the longest series in SF history, as the publication stretched over a period of over 35 years.

Jones wrote almost exclusively space opera stories, most of which were published in Amazing Stories . He divided his stories into three groups, namely Tales of the 24th century , Tales of the 26th century and Professor Jameson , using a kind of consistent history of the future as a basis, similar to Heinlein later with his future history stories.

With the decline of pulp magazines, Jones ended his writing career. He didn't write anything after 1951. He died in 1988 at the age of 78 and was buried in Mount Adnah Cemetery , Fulton, Oswego County.

Works

Durna Rangue (short stories)
  • 1 The Asteroid of Death (1931)
  • 2 The Moon Pirates (1934)
  • 3 Little Hercules (1936)
  • 4 Durna Rangue neophytes (1937)
  • 5 Invisible One (1940)
  • 6 Vampire of the Void (1941)
  • 7 Captives of the Durna Rangue (1941)
  • 8 Priestess of the Sleeping Death (1941)
  • 9 The Citadel in Space (1951)
Professor Jameson (short stories)
  • The Jameson Satellite (1931)
    • English: The Jameson Satellite. In: The time mausoleum. 1984.
  • The Planet of the Double Sun (1932)
    • English: Planet under the double sun. In: The time mausoleum. 1984.
  • The Return of the Tripeds (1932)
    • English: The return of the tripod. In: The time mausoleum. 1984.
  • Into the Hydrosphere (1933)
    • English: Into the hydrosphere. In: The time mausoleum. 1984.
  • Time's Mausoleum (1933)
    • German: The time mausoleum. In: The time mausoleum. 1984.
  • The Sunless World (1934)
  • Zora of the Zoromes (1935)
    • German: Princess Zora. In: Twin Worlds. 1985.
  • Space War (1935)
    • German: war in space. In: Twin Worlds. 1985.
  • Labyrinth (1936)
    • English: The Labyrinth. In: Twin Worlds. 1985.
  • Twin Worlds (1937)
    • German: Zwillingswelten. In: Twin Worlds. 1985.
  • On the Planet Fragment (1937)
      • English: The Planet Fragment. In: Metallmond. 1986.
  • The Music Monsters (1938)
  • The Cat-Men of Aemt (1940)
  • Cosmic Derelict (1941)
  • Slaves of the Unknown (1942)
  • Doomsday on Ajiat (1942)
    • English: The Fall of Aijat. In: Metallmond. 1986.
  • The Metal Moon (1949)
    • German: The metal moon. In: Metallmond. 1986.
  • Parasite Planet (1949)
  • World Without Darkness (1950)
  • The Mind Masters (1950)
  • The Star Killers (1951)
  • In the Meteoric Cloud (1968)
    • English: Die Meteoritenwolke. In: Metallmond. 1986.
  • The Accelerated World (1968)
    • German: The raging world. In: Metallmond. 1986.
  • Exiles from Below (1989)
Professor Jameson (collections)
  • 1 The Planet of the Double Sun (1967)
  • 2 The Sunless World (1967)
  • 3 Space War (1967)
  • 4 Twin Worlds (1967)
  • 5 Doomsday on Ajiat (1968)
Professor Jameson's space adventure
Professor Jameson's Interstellar Adventures
  • Professor Jameson's Interstellar Adventures # 1: The Jameson Satellite & Planet of the Double Sun (2005)
  • Professor Jameson's Interstellar Adventures # 2: Time's Mausoleum & The Sunless World (2009)
The Professor Jameson Saga
  • 1 The Professor Jameson Saga: Book One (2015)
  • 2 The Professor Jameson Saga: Book Two (2015)
  • 3 The Professor Jameson Saga: Book Three (2016)
  • 4 The Professor Jameson Saga: Book Four (2017)
Short stories
  • The Death's Head Meteor (1930)
  • The Electrical Man (1930)
  • Shadows of the Night (1930)
  • Spacewrecked on Venus (1931)
  • Suicide Durkee's Last Ride (1932)
  • Escape from Phobos (1933)
  • Martian and Troglodyte (1933)
  • The Astounding Exodus (1937)
  • Kiss of Death (1938)
  • Swordsmen of Saturn (1939)
  • The Dark Swordsmen of Saturn (1940)
  • Liquid Hell (1940)
  • Hermit of Saturn's Ring (1940)
  • Variant: Hermit of Saturn's Rings (1940)
    • German: The white death. In: Walter Ernsting (Ed.): Utopia Science Fiction Magazin, # 6. Pabel, 1957. Also in: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction Stories 21. Ullstein 2000 # 37 (2936), 1973, ISBN 3-548-02936-1 .
  • The Ransom for Toledo (1941)
  • Spoilers of the Spaceways (1942)
  • The Legend of Interplanetary (1948)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cal Meacham: The Brain in the Aquarium ( Memento June 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Jones, Neil R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jones, Neil Ronald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Fulton , Oswego County , New York
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1988
Place of death Fulton , Oswego County , New York