14 Books – Novels and Short Story Collections,- by Raymond F. Jones
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Overview: Raymond Fisher Jones (1915 – 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 and for the short story "The Children’s Room", which was adapted for television as Episode Two of the ABC network show Tales of Tomorrow, first aired on February 29, 1952.
Genre: Fiction » Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
Renegades of Time (Laser Books 01)
Number one in the Laser Books series of original science fiction novels, released in August 1975.
High adventure in time and space, this novel represents the division that can be drawn between Jones’ early period of writing and the final few years of his career in which much of the hard science of his previous work is toned down. As well as being a fun read with plenty of action, this novel contains some astute observations on human relationships. An abridged version of this novel was published as The Lost Ones by Bonneville Productions in 1978.
The King of Eolim (Laser Books 12)
Laser Books #12, November 1975.
Adventure stories don’t normally make a point as well, but Raymond F. Jones is no ordinary adventure story writer. In this touching and beautiful tale, Forester Bradwell shares his son’s adventures and learns a lesson he will never forget. Neither will you. For Forester Bradwell is one of the elite in a time and society where stupidity and ignorance have been conquered by genetic engineering. But his son Freeman is a Retard. The King of Eolim is the story of the Bradwell’s search for a home that will truly be "home" for Free.
The River and the Dream (Laser Books 54)
All his life Manvar has had a dream. One day, he will escape the harshly primitive, blizzard-torn lands of the north. He will follow the paths of the Ancients and see for himself the fabled lands of the south: lands without ice and snow and perpetual night; lands of warmth and light, where life is easy and comfortable within walled cities of incredible beauty. Manvar follows his dream, but finds it hollow. Life in the wondrous city of Delphos is not the paradise it seemed.
Man of Two Worlds (1944) aka Renaissance
Ketan journeyed to the great Edge in answer to the message: "If any of you live, come through to us. Save us. Bring weapons!"
Ron Barron 01 Son of the Stars
In SON OF THE STARS, Raymond Jones has written of a forthright friendship between a young castaway from space and his earthly counterpart. How a cold and suspicious military, recognizing Clonar only as an alien from an astonishingly advanced civilization, turns friendship into treachery that threatens earth’s existence, makes this an electrifying story with a thought-provoking theme. In scenes uncomfortably vivid, you’ll meet soldiers and citizens of a typical American city; people like calculating General Gillispie and frightened Mrs. Barron, whose reactions to an "interplanetary" situation bring the world to the brink of destruction.
Ron Barron 02 Planet of Light
Ron Barron never expected to see Clonar again. Clonar, the boy who alone had survived the crash of an interstellar saucer-ship near Ron’s home, had been rescued by his people and returned to Rorla, a planet in the Great Galaxy of Andromeda, almost a million light-years from Earth. When he left, he assured Ron that communication between Rorla and Earth would be impossible. Yet only a year later, Ron listened with growing excitement to Clonar’s voice coming over the interstellar communication system, inviting Ron and his family to journey to Rorla to attend a conference of the Galactic Federation. None of the Barrons could have known that Clonar’s invitation was violently opposed by the Rorlans, nor that on Rorla was an unknown enemy who resented their coming – a man who saw Earth’s destruction as a necessity. And it was a bitter coincidence that that man should be in charge of the colony of delegates. As representatives of a planet whose civilization was considered dangerous and too inferior for membership in the Federation, the Barrons found themselves at the mercy of suspicious and hostile strangers bent on proving Earth’s civilization unsalvageable. Not until Ron’s father becomes an innocent party to an assassination plot, do they fully realize to what extent the Rorlans will carry their deception. Climaxed by a shocking courtroom scene in which Ron stands trial for Earth, this sequel to Raymond Jones’s SON OF THE STARS is an intricately plotted tale of what could happen if Earth were to come face to face with long-established civilizations of Outer Space.
Sunday is Three Thousand Years Away and Other SF Classics (2004)
This collection contains a generous helping of Jones’ short novels: “Sunday is 3000 Years Away,” a romantic time travel story, “Alarm Reaction,” a scientific puzzler with the future of Earth at stake, “The Unlearned,” a classic of cultural misunderstanding, and “Discontinuity,” one of his most popular novellas. It also showcases three novelettes — “The Cat and the King,” which recounts the unusual downfall of a tyrant, “The Farthest Horizon,” the story of a woman who learned a new meaning of the word “home,” and “The Person from Porlock,” which explains why so many great works of art and scientific theory remain incomplete. Few of these stories were ever reprinted, representing a rare opportunity to sample the work of this science fiction master from his prime.
The Cybernetic Brains (1950) Original
This version is based on the original Startling Stories edition published in Sept 1950 a slightly expanded version was published by Avalon Books in 1962, four or five editions of this expanded version were published, the latest by Thunderchild Books in 2014
It was supercivilization, a Utopia. At its core were the Cybernetic Brains, brains taken from geniuses who were promised they would live forever.
Then engineer Al Demming discovers the truth accidentally, the terrible truth transmitted to him by one of the brains. The brains are in reality slaves and in terrible torment. It was now up to Demming to stop the inhuman practice.
Just when he planned to make the announcement to the Governing Board, Demming learned that the Board knew about the hideous living death. What was the real reason behind the facade? How could he convince the Board to suspend the system before the Brains revolted and destroyed the world?
The Deviates aka The Secret People (1956)
When human genes go wild, reproduction can no longer be left to chance – and it is Robert Wellton, Chief of the Genetics Bureau, the most feared and hated man in the world, who decides who will mate with whom.
But nobody can tell Wellton whom to mate with! He alone knows that the Genetics Program is collapsing, for fewer Normals are found each yer – and his father, who had been Genetics Chief before him, had discovered that not all Deviates are nature’s failures. Some are telepathic and long-lived – like Robert Wellton himself.
Thus is born the plan that Adam Wellton conceived and that Robert Wellton carries on – the creation of a Secret People. Born of Normal mothers, they are all Wellton’s sons and daughters, bearing his improved genes – living hidden in a colony in the Canadian wilderness, protected from the hate and jealousy of civilization by Wellton, who stays in telepathic touch with them.
But disaster strikes when a bitter powerful committee, suspecting the existence of concealed Deviates, begins a relentless search for them. Wellton knows there can be only one result – he Secret People will be hunted down and wiped out!
The Great Gray Plague made by Jerry eBooks, 2020
On the surface, James Ellerbee was a crackpot with an impossible invention: a crystal cube you could hold in your hand that allowed instant communication with anyone on Earth. But the inventor came with affidavits, signed and notarized, from three unbiased witnesses: the Fire Chief, the Chief of Police, and the Community Church Pastor of Redrock…
The Non-Statistical Man (1964) SSC
Contains:
THE NON-STATISTICAL MAN.
THE MOON IS DEATH
THE GARDENER
INTERMISSION TIME
The Year When Stardust Fell (1958)
The Year When Stardust Fell is an engaging sci-fi thriller about an Earth in peril. Mayfield was the typical college town. Nothing too unusual ever happened there until a mysterious comet was suddenly observed by the scientists on College Hill. And then one day the modified engine on Ken Maddox’s car began overheating mysteriously. By morning it didn’t run at all. Art’s Garage, local headquarters for hot-rodders, was soon so full of cars that wouldn’t run, that Ken’s science club began working in the garage after school. It didn’t take long for the club to discover that all the moving parts on these stalled cars had fused together. Soon all machinery had stopped in Mayfield. There was no longer any light or power anywhere. This mysterious creeping paralysis was spreading. The copper-yellow glow of the comet seemed to have brought the whole world to a grinding halt. Airplanes, trains, generators and heavy machinery were immobilized. Finally man was left with only a few primitive tools and communication became possible only by means of amateur radio. In the resulting chaos parts of Mayfield were burned and looted by hunger-crazed mobs that stole and killed as they advanced. Here is science fiction at its thrilling best. A startling and thought-provoking book that shows how human nature might react to catastrophe.
This Island Earth: The Original Novelettes (1949-50) made by Jerry eBooks, 2018
In 1949 and 1950 a science fiction serial by Raymond F. Jones appeared in Thrilling Wonder Stories. Within half a decade that serial would make history as the basis of the first science fiction movie about interstellar travel and interstellar war. The next Hollywood movie to venture to another solar system was Forbidden Planet, a wholly original construct of the prestige studio MGM. But solid, reliable Universal Studios was there first…long before Star Trek.
This Island Earth (1952) The book version
This Island Earth was really the first Star Wars. Colorful, spectacular, wildly imaginative, it lived up to everything its agent could possibly want, a man who was known as Mr. Science Fiction and who now brings back this classic novel: Forrest J Ackerman. A phrase he coined in another galaxy a long time ago say’s it all: Gosh Wow! This story has it all.
The cover of this special edition features Jeff Morrow in the role of one of the most sympathetic aliens in 1950’s science fiction film (the other is Michael Rennie in The Day the Earth Stood Still, also adapted from a literary source). In the novel he is Jorgasnovara, in the movie the less jaw Breaking Exeter. In both print and celluloid he comes to respect the Earth scientists essayed by Rex Reason and Faith Domergue.
This Island Earth is a book of heroes. The first half of the film closely follows the novel but then diverges from the intellectual challenges faced by Dr. Cal Meachem to more cinematic fare. Reading the novel now, one cannot help but marvel at how Jones’ views everything from labor disputes to the predictability of computers influenced later movies and television, making This Island Earth, the novel, even more influential than-one would guess from This Island Earth the movie.
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The Complete Short Fiction by Raymond F. Jones could be found here: https://forum.mobilism.org/viewtopic.php?f=1293&t=3911104&hilit=Raymond+F.+Jones
