Dennis Feltham Jones

Dennis Feltham Jones OBE, VRD[1] (July 15, 1918 – April 1, 1981)) was a British science fiction author who published under the name D. F. Jones. He was a naval 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

Novels

• Colossus series:
  1. Colossus (1966)
  2. The Fall of Colossus (1974)
  3. 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

• "Coffee Break" (1968)
• "Black Snowstorm" (1969)
• "The Tocsin" (1970)

Adaptations

• Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970), film directed by Joseph Sargent, based on novel Colossus

See also

• Colossus computer

References

1. "No. 44863". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 1969. p. 5965.
2. "Authors". Venture Press. Retrieved 3 June 2017.

External links

• Fantastic Fiction
• SF Site
• D. F. Jones at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Jones, D. F. at The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction