5 books by Raymond F. Jones
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Overview: Raymond Fisher Jones (November 15, 1915, Salt Lake City, Utah – January 24, 1994, Sandy, Salt Lake County, Utah) 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 > Science Fiction
Man of Two Worlds (1944) aka Renaissance (ed. jim3692)
Like all my companions in Kronweld I emerged full-grown from the Temple of Birth. My needs, my wishes, my passions were coldly filed in the perforated transparencies that constitute the integrated will of Kronweld.
But I alone harbor curiosity about our past. I alone know the Bors of Dark Land and how they are born. I alone have discovered the hidden secret of our birth… and have heard the groaning fertility prisoners of the other world. Here is their message: "If any of you live, come through to us. Save us. Bring weapons!"
Originally called Renaissance and renamed Man of Two Worlds for this later release, this is an epic parallel-dimension story with political overtones. It has been described as "highly intelligent space opera."
Sunday is Three Thousand Years Away and Other SF Classics SSC
Sunday is Three Thousand Years Away Thrilling Wonder Stories June 1950
The Cat and the King Astounding Science Fiction, August 1946
Alarm Reaction Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1951
The Unlearned Worlds of If, August 1954.
The Farthest Horizon Astounding Science Fiction, April 1952
The Person from Porlock Astounding Science Fiction, August 1947
Discontinuity Astounding Science Fiction, October 1950
The Non-Statistical Man (1964) SSC (ed. jim3692)
Contains:
THE NON-STATISTICAL MAN.
THE MOON IS DEATH
THE GARDENER
INTERMISSION TIME
This Island Earth (1952)
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 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.
This Island Earth: The Original Novelettes (ed. Jerry eBooks, 2018)
The Alien Machine
Thrilling Wonder Stories, June 1949, Volume XXXIV, No. 2
The Shroud of Secrecy
Thrilling Wonder Stories, December, 1949, Volume XXXV, No. 2
The Greater Conflict
Thrilling Wonder Stories, February, 1950, Volume XXXV, No. 3
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