author
Neil R. Jones
1909–1988
A quietly influential pulp-era science fiction writer, he helped imagine ideas that later became staples of the genre, from advanced robots to suspended animation. Best known for the Professor Jameson stories, he brought a cool, cosmic sense of wonder to early magazine science fiction.
3 Audiobooks
Doomsday on Ajiat
by Neil R. Jones
The Jameson Satellite
by Neil R. Jones
Spacewrecked on Venus
by Neil R. Jones
About the author
Neil R. Jones was an American science fiction writer born in Fulton, New York, in 1909. He worked for New York State while writing fiction, and his first published story, The Death's Head Meteor, appeared in Air Wonder Stories in 1930.
Though never especially prolific, he became an important early voice in science fiction. Reference works and library collections describe him as a pioneer whose stories explored ideas that later became central to the field, including robots, cyborg-like beings, and suspended animation. He is especially remembered for the Professor Jameson tales, a series about a man whose preserved brain continues its adventures in a mechanical future.
Jones died in 1988, but his work still interests readers who enjoy the imaginative boldness of classic pulp science fiction. His papers are preserved at Syracuse University, a sign of the lasting curiosity surrounding his unusual and forward-looking stories.