author
Raymond F. Jones
1915–1994
Best known for the classic novel This Island Earth, this Golden Age science fiction writer brought a practical, engineering-minded feel to stories about alien contact, technology, and the future. His work appeared widely in mid-20th-century science fiction magazines and helped shape the era’s sense of wonder.
11 Audiobooks
The Colonists
by Raymond F. Jones
Stay off the Moon!
by Raymond F. Jones
The Great Gray Plague
by Raymond F. Jones
Human Error
by Raymond F. Jones
The Year When Stardust Fell
by Raymond F. Jones
The Martian Circe
by Raymond F. Jones
The Memory of Mars
by Raymond F. Jones
The Seven Jewels of Chamar
by Raymond F. Jones
Cubs of the Wolf
by Raymond F. Jones
The Unlearned
by Raymond F. Jones
The thinking machine
by Raymond F. Jones
About the author
Raymond F. Jones was an American science fiction author born in 1915 and died in 1994. He is most closely associated with the Golden Age of science fiction, and his best-known book, This Island Earth (1952), was later adapted into the 1955 film of the same name.
He published fiction in major science fiction magazines and built a reputation for stories that mixed big speculative ideas with a clear, approachable style. Readers often remember his work for its interest in science, invention, and the human side of technological change.
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