author
Neil R. Jones
1909–1988
A quietly influential pulp-era science fiction writer, he imagined far-future robots, cyborgs, and deep-space adventures long before many of those ideas became genre staples. His Professor Jameson stories helped give early SF some of its strangest and most memorable visions of immortality.
4 Audiobooks
Doomsday on Ajiat
by Neil R. Jones
The Jameson Satellite
by Neil R. Jones
Spacewrecked on Venus
by Neil R. Jones
The death's head meteor
by Neil R. Jones
About the author
Born in Fulton, New York, Neil R. Jones was an American science fiction writer whose work appeared mainly in the pulp magazines from the 1930s into the early 1950s. He also worked for New York State as an unemployment insurance claims investigator, continuing that career until his retirement.
Jones is best remembered for the Professor Jameson series, in which a human mind survives in mechanical form and travels the cosmos with the Zoromes — beings often described as early cyborg-like or robotic figures in science fiction. His first published story, "The Death's Head Meteor," appeared in 1930, and he is often noted for very early use of the word astronaut in fiction.
He was never among the most prolific names of the pulp era, but later reference works have credited him with being ahead of his time. Readers who enjoy classic science fiction often come to Jones for his eerie sense of scale, his fascination with life beyond the body, and the bold, imaginative strangeness of his ideas.