Dennis Feltham Jones
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Dennis Feltham Jones OBE VRD[1] (15 July 1918 – 1 April 1981) was a British science fiction author who published under the name D.F. Jones. He was a Royal Navy commander during World War II and lived in Cornwall.[2]
His first novel, Colossus (1966), about a defence super computer which uses its control over nuclear weapons to subjugate mankind, was made into the feature film Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970).
Bibliography
[edit]Novels
[edit]- Colossus series:
- Colossus (1966)
- The Fall of Colossus (1974)
- Colossus and the Crab (1977)
- Implosion (1967)
- Don't Pick the Flowers, or Denver is Missing (1971)
- The Floating Zombie (1975)
- Xeno, or Earth Has Been Found (1979)
- Bound in Time (1981)
Short stories
[edit]- "Coffee Break" (1968)
- "Black Snowstorm" (1969)
- "The Tocsin" (1970)
Film Adaptation
[edit]- Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970), directed by Joseph Sargent, based on his 1966 novel Colossus
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "No. 44863". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 1969. p. 5965.
- ^ "Authors". Venture Press. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
