Raymond F. Jones

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Raymond Fisher Jones (* 15. November 1915 in Salt Lake City ; † 24. January 1994 in Sandy , Utah ) was an American science fiction - author . He also published under the pseudonym David Anderson.

Life

Jones developed a taste for SF as a teenager. He attended high school and college and trained as a radio technician, but then worked as an installer of switching technology for Western Electric . In 1940 he married and started working for the weather service . The experiences from this time flowed into some of his stories. During the Second World War he then worked as a radio technician in Baltimore . After returning to the West, where he settled with his family in Phoenix , Arizona , he began working as a freelance writer.

In 1941, his first short story, Test Of The Gods , appeared in the September issue of Astounding Science Fiction . In this magazine he also published a large part of his stories. After further short stories in the following two years, he published his first novel in 1944. Astounding brought out Science Fiction Renaissance (also: Man Of Two Worlds ), a parallel world novel , in four episodes .

But he became known through his novel This Island Earth , published in 1952 . This work was filmed by Josef Newman in 1955 (in Germany it was called Metaluna IV does not answer ). The novel is a fix-up of the peace engineers stories The Alien Machine , The Shroud Of Secrecy and The Greater Conflict, which were published in Thrilling Wonder Stories in 1949/1950 . The German edition of This Island Earth was adapted to the film by the translator Walter Ernsting , which was shot according to the book, but deviates significantly from the original, especially towards the end.

In the early 1960s, his publications became rarer and it was not until the early 1970s that Jones wrote SF again. However, this phase is characterized by rather undemanding entertainment texts. With his classics, however, he has certainly earned merit and helped shape the history of SF.

bibliography

This Island Earth (Series)
  • The Alien Machine (1949, short story)
  • The Shroud of Secrecy (1949, short story)
  • The Greater Conflict (1950, short story)
  • This Island Earth (1952)
    • English: Island between the stars. Pabel (Utopia Grossband # 37), 1956.
Ron Barron (series)
  • 1 Son of the Stars (1952)
    • German: Son of the Stars. AWA (Astron Library), 1957.
  • 2 Planet of Light (1953)
Martin Nagle (short story series)
  • Noise Level (1952)
  • Trade Secret (1953)
  • The School (1954)
Novels
  • Renaissance (1944, 1951, also as Man of Two Worlds , 1963)
    • German: The man of two worlds. Moewig (Terra Taschenbuch # 130), 1967.
  • The Alien (1951)
    • English: the legacy of hell. Moewig (Terra special volume # 14), 1959.
  • The Secret People (1956, also called The Deviates , 1959)
    • German: Experiment Genetik. Semrau (The Spaceman # 6), 1958.
  • The Year When Stardust Fell (1958)
    • German: stardust. Pabel (Utopia Grossband # 124), 1960.
  • The Cybernetic Brains (1962)
  • Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1965)
  • Syn (1969)
  • Moonbase One (1972)
  • Renegades of Time (1975, also abbreviated as The Lost Ones , 1978)
  • The King of Eolim (1975)
  • The River and the Dream (1977)
  • Weeping May Tarry (1978) with Lester del Rey
Collections
  • The Toymaker (1951)
  • The Non-Statistical Man (1964)
    • German: Outsiders of this world. Moewig (Terra # 534), 1967.
  • Two Worlds of Raymond F. Jones (2009)
  • Raymond F. Jones Resurrected: Selected Science Fiction Stories of Raymond F. Jones (2012)
Short stories
  • Test of the Gods (1941)
  • Starting Point (1942)
  • Swimming Lesson (1943)
  • Pacer (1943)
  • Fifty Million Monkeys (1943)
  • Utility (1944, as David Anderson)
  • Correspondence Course (1945)
  • Deadly Host (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 Children's Room (1947)
  • Production Test (1949)
  • Outpost Infinity (1950)
  • Encroachment (1950)
  • Regulations Provide (1950)
  • Portrait of Narcissus (1950)
  • Sunday is Three Thousand Years Away (1950)
  • The Cybernetic Brains (1950)
  • Discontinuity (1950)
  • Tools of the Trade (1950)
  • ... Divided We Fall (1950)
  • A Stone and a Spear (1950)
  • I Tell You Three Times (1951)
  • "... As Others See Us" (1951)
  • Alarm Reaction (1951)
  • Seed (1951)
  • The Wrong Side of Paradise (1951)
  • The Farthest Horizon (1952)
  • Collision (1952)
  • Doomsday's Color-Press (1952)
    • German: The Psycho Equation. In: Ivan Howard (Ed.): Flight to Earth. Moewig (Terra # 452), 1966.
  • Canterbury April (1952)
  • The Moon Is Death (1953)
    • English: The deadly stones. In: Outsiders of this world . 1967.
  • Intermission Time (1953)
  • The Colonists (1954)
    • German: endurance test. 1981.
  • The Unlearned (1954)
  • The Gift of the Gods (1955)
  • Cubs of the Wolf (1955)
  • Human Error (1956)
  • Academy for Pioneers (1956)
  • The Non-Statistical Man (1956)
    • German: Outsiders of this world. In: Outsiders of this world . 1967.
  • 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)
  • A Bowl of Biskies Makes a Growing Boy (1973)
    • German: What a boy needs to be big and strong. In: Roger Elwood (ed.): Beyond Tomorrow. Ueberreuter, 1976, ISBN 3-8000-3137-X .
  • The Laughing Lion (1973)
  • The Lights of Mars (1973)
  • The Lions of Rome (1973)
  • Time Brother (1973)
  • Pet (1973)
  • Flauna (1974)
  • Reflection of a Star (1974)
  • The Touch of Your Hand (1974)
  • Pacer (1974)
    • German: The best man. In: Roger Elwood (ed.): Journey to Infinity. Buoy Science Fiction, 1976, ISBN 3-414-13000-9 .
  • The Rebels of Emperia (1978)
  • The Star Prince (1978)
  • Death Eternal (1978)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Raymond F. Jones - Autobiographical sketches from the pulp magazines , accessed March 31, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Jones, Raymond F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jones, Raymond Fisher (full name); Anderson, David (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Salt Lake City
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1994
Place of death Sandy , Utah