Raymond F. Jones

Jones's novella "The Wrong Side of Paradise" was the cover story in the August 1951 issue of Amazing Stories. Jones's novelette "Stay Off the Moon!" was the cover story on the December 1962 issue of Amazing Stories.

Raymond Fisher Jones (15 November 1915 – 24 January 1994) was an American science fiction author. He is best known for his 1952 novel This Island Earth, which was adapted into the eponymous 1955 film.

Personal life Jones was born at Salt Lake City, Utah, and was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from birth. He died at Sandy, Utah, in 1994.

Career Most of Jones' short fiction was published during the 1940s, '50s and '60s, in magazines such as Thrilling Wonder Stories, Astounding Stories, and Galaxy. His sixteen novels were published between 1951 and 1978.

His short story "Rat Race", first published in the April 1966 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, was nominated for a Hugo Award. In 1996, "Correspondence Course", first published in the April 1945 edition of Astounding Stories, was nominated for a Retro Hugo award for best short story. Another short story, "The Alien Machine", first published in the June 1949 edition of Thrilling Wonder Stories, was later combined with two other short stories, "The Shroud of Secrecy" and "The Greater Conflict", and expanded into the novel This Island Earth, upon which the movie of the same name was based.

Jones also wrote the story upon which a 1952 Tales of Tomorrow television program episode, titled "The Children's Room", was based.

Jones short story, "Tools of the Trade", that appeared in the November 1950 issue of Astounding, was the first story dealing with 3D printing, although he called it "Molecular Spray".

In 1978, three of his stories were dramatized and released through audio cassette by AudiSee: The Renegades of Time (The Lost Ones), The King of Eolim (The Star Prince) and The Rebels of Empiria. All three adaptations were sold with an accompanying art-filled booklet.