raymond f jones

Raymond Fisher Jones born Salt Lake City, Utah: 15 November 1915 died Sandy, Utah: 24 January 1994 Raymond F. Jones an American science fiction writer who is most recognised for writing This Island Earth, published in 1958, which was made into the popular Universal Studios 1958 feature film...

Hi there folks. I'm trying to track down a book that is apparently rather obscure, as I've had little to no luck tracking it down. If I remember correctly it was a rather thick hardback, printed in English. i believe the cover was a fairly dour looking scene of a lake and a boatman with tall...

I'm trying to find the name of a book I read as a teenager - probably in the early 1960s. I remember only the plot. A comet passes near earth, and dust from its tail envelopes Earth. The dust causes surface tension in metals to break down, and anywhere metal needs to slide over other metal, the...

IN the early 1960's, I read a teen level novel about Earth passing through the tail of a comet. This caused a breakdown in the surface tension of metals. which caused the fusing of any two metel parts sliding over each other. Pistons inside cylinders, for example. A slow slide back to the 18th...

I read this in the 1970s, possibly from an old Gollancz collection of stories - my guess it dates from the 40s-50s, maybe by Henry Kuttner and/or C.L. Moore. Some scientists are told that an invisibility machine (or it might have been for teleportation or time travel) has been created, but...

The story's main character ran a repair depot for spaceships in the neighborhood of earth. He was trying to expand into repairing those of the more-advanced alien species who visited earth. The problem - and maybe the title - was "the tools to make the tools". He finally gets the tech he needs...

In high school in 60s I read a science fiction novel and cannot recall title or author. The plot is that two high school boys live in a small town in the US. Some sort of meteorite or other occurrence causes some sort of dust to fall from the sky. All mechanical things (motors, engines, etc.)...

I am trying to find a particular short story. The government gathers a broad group of scientists & tells them that somebody invented a space drive (or teleportation, or something) and then disappeared - leaving no records except for his personal library. They were tasked to study his library &...

Ok, this is what I remember: I read it in about 1992/93, I found it brand new in a little airport book/souvenir store in Canada. I believe the main character is British, but I can't be sure. It opens with him having on a whim sent for a complete phone directory mail order thing...

This Island Earth The publisher, Pulpless.Com, Inc. (webmaster@pulpless.com) , writes:- 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...