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Raymond F. Jones


Born
in Salt Lake City, Utah , The United States
November 15, 1915

Died
January 24, 1994

Genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy


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.

Jones' career was at its peak during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. His stories were published mainly in magazines such as Thrilling Wonder Stories, Astounding Stories, and Galaxy. His short story Noise Level is known as one of his best works. His short story "The Alien Machine", first published in the June, 1949 Th ...more

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Average rating: 3.79 · 2,281 ratings · 346 reviews · 189 distinct works • Similar authors
This Island Earth
3.80 avg rating — 305 ratings — published 1952
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The Year When Stardust Fell
3.67 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 1958 — 51 editions
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The Alien
3.43 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1951 — 46 editions
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Man of Two Worlds
3.43 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1951 — 28 editions
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Noise Level
4.33 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1952 — 3 editions
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The Memory of Mars
3.78 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1961 — 34 editions
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Renegades of Time
3.49 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1975 — 7 editions
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Voyage to the Bottom of the...
3.44 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1965 — 6 editions
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Weeping May Tarry
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3.59 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1978 — 3 editions
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Son of the Stars
3.71 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1952 — 14 editions
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“Everyone's a knucklehead at one point or another.”
― Raymond Jones
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“Mart had been of the total conviction that life was wholly soluble in terms of the external world. If a man had something good and useful to do in shaping the world to his own dream, he would be a sane and happy man.”
― Raymond F. Jones, Noise Level
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“Charles Bascomb was a man who loved figures—the genuine, Arabic kind, that is.”
― Raymond F. Jones, The Non-Statistical Man
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