Raymond F. Jones

Jones was born at Salt Lake City, Utah, and was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from birth.{{Cite web |url= http://raymondfjones.tripod.com/meettheauthor.htm |title= Meet the author |publisher= The Unofficial Raymond F. Jones Website}} He died at Sandy, Utah, in 1994.{{Cite web |url= https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/29217958 |title= Raymond Fisher Jones (1915 - 1994) - Find A Grave Memorial |publisher= Find A Grave}}

Most of Jones' short fiction was published during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, in magazines such as Thrilling Wonder Stories, Astounding Stories, and Galaxy. His sixteen novels were published between 1951 and 1978.{{Cite web |url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ch.cgi?34 |title= Raymond F. Jones - Chronological Bibliography |publisher= The Internet Speculative Fiction Database}}

His short story "Rat Race", first published in the April 1966 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, was nominated for a Hugo Award.{{Cite web |url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1967-hugo-awards/ |title= 1967 Hugo Awards |publisher= The Hugo Awards Website}} In 1996, "Correspondence Course", first published in the April 1945 edition of Astounding Stories, was nominated for a Retro Hugo award for best short story.{{Cite web |url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1946-retro-hugo-awards |title= 1946 Retro Hugo Awards |publisher= The Hugo Awards Website}} Another short story, "The Alien Machine", first published in the June 1949 edition of Thrilling Wonder Stories, was later combined with two other short stories, "The Shroud of Secrecy" and "The Greater Conflict", and expanded into the novel This Island Earth,{{Cite web |url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?9893 |title= Bibliography: This Island Earth |publisher= The Internet Speculative Fiction Database}} upon which the movie of the same name was based.

Jones also wrote the story upon which a 1952 Tales of Tomorrow television program episode, titled "The Children's Room", was based.{{Cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0717054/ |title= "Tales of Tomorrow" The Children's Room (TV episode 1952) - IMDb |publisher= IMDb}}

Jones short story, "Tools of the Trade", that appeared in the November 1950 issue of Astounding, was the first story dealing with 3D printing, although he called it "Molecular Spray" at the time.

In 1978 three of his stories were dramatized & released through audio cassette by AudiSee: The Renegades of Time (The Lost One's), The King Of Eolim (The Star Prince) & The Rebels Of Empiria. All three adaptations were sold with an accompanying art-filled booklet.

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• The Alien (1951), {{OCLC|1872654}}
• Renaissance (1951), {{OCLC|1601340}}
• The Toymaker (1951), {{OCLC|3437888}}
• Son of the Stars (1952), {{OCLC|1601327}}
• This Island Earth (1952), {{OCLC|6122497}}
• Planet of Light (1953), {{OCLC|1137088}}
• The Secret People (1956), {{OCLC|6362798}}
• The Year When Stardust Fell (1958), {{OCLC|1137133}}
• The Cybernetic Brains (1962), {{OCLC|1915415}}
• The Non-Statistical Man (1964), {{OCLC|1881957}}
• Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1965), {{OCLC|5871064}}
• Syn (1969), {{OCLC|6083296}}

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• "Test of the Gods" (September, 1941)
• "The Children's Room" (1942)
• "Starting Point" (1942)
• "Swimming Lesson" (1943)
• "Pacer" (1943)
• "Fifty Million Monkeys (1943)
• "Utility" (1944) [as by David Anderson]
• Renaissance series (1944)
• "[https://archive.org/stream/Astounding_v36n01_1945-09_AK#page/n113/mode/2up Deadly Host]" (1945)
• "Correspondence Course" (1945)
• "Black Market" (1946)
• "Forecast" (1946)
• "The Cat and the King" (1946)
• "The Toymaker" (1946)
• "The Seven Jewels of Chamar" (1946)
• "[https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v38n06_1947-02_AK/page/n63 Pete Can Fix It]" (1947)
• "The Martian Circe" (1947)
• "The Model Shop" (1947)
• "The Person from Porlock" (1947)
• "The Alien Machine, featuring Cal Meacham" (1949)
• "Production Test" (1949)
• "The Shroud of Secrecy, featuring Cal Meacham" (1949)
• "Outpost Infinity" (1950)
• "The Greater Conflict, featuring Cal Meacham" (1950)
• "Regulations Provide" (1950)
• "Encroachment" (1950)
• "Portrait of Narcissus" (1950)
• "Sunday is Three Thousand Years Away" (1950)
• "The Cybernetic Brains" (1950)
• "Discontinuity" (1950)
• "Tools of the Trade" (1950)
• "A Stone and a Spear" (1950)
• "Divided We Fall. . ." (1950)
• "I Tell You Three Times" (1951)
• "... As Others See Us" (1951)
• "Alarm Reaction" (1951)
• "The Wrong Side of Paradise" (1951)
• "Seed" (1951)
• "The Farthest Horizon" (1952)
• "Collision" (1952)
• "Doomsday's Color-Press" (1952)
• "Noise Level" (1952)
• "Canterbury April" (1952)
• "The Moon Is Death" (1953)
• "Intermission Time (1953)
• "Trade Secret" (1953)
• "The Colonists" (1954)
• "The Unlearned" (1954)
• "The School" (1954)
• "The Gift of the Gods" (1955)
• "Cubs of the Wolf" (1955)
• "Human Error" (1956)
• "Academy for Pioneers" (1956)
• "The Deviates" (1956)
• "The Non-Statistical Man" (1956)
• "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)
• "The Laughing Lion" (1973)
• "Pet" (1973)
• "The Lights of Mars" (1973)
• "A Bowl of Biskies Makes a Growing Boy" (1973)
• "The Lions of Rome" (1973)
• "Time Brother" (1973)
• "Reflection of a Star" (1974)
• "Flauna" (1974)
• "The Touch of Your Hand" (1974)
• "Death Eternal" (1978)
• "Weeping May Tarry" (1978, written with Lester del Rey)

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NineProject Gutenberg of his books have been made available for free by the Gutenberg Project, despite their recent publication, because they fell into the public domain when the original copyright was not renewed: The Great Gray Plague, The Memory of Mars, Cubs of the Wolf, The Colonists, The Year When Stardust Fell, The Unlearned, The Alien, and Human Error, plus the Japanese book 火星の記憶.

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• {{cite web | title=Raymond F. Jones | work=The Unofficial Raymond F. Jones Website | url=http://raymondfjones.tripod.com/ | accessdate=2005-12-12}}
• {{cite book | last=Tuck | first=Donald H. | author-link=Donald H. Tuck | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy | location=Chicago | publisher=Advent | pages=247–248 | year=1974|isbn=0-911682-20-1}}
• {{cite web | title=The Hugo Awards | work=1946 Retro Hugo Awards | url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1946-retro-hugo-awards// | accessdate=2013-02-10}}

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Category:American science fiction writers

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