Dennis Feltham Jones

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Dennis Feltham Jones OBE, VRD[1] (1918–1981) 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). The movie was actually filmed and made in 1969.

Selected bibliography

Colossus series
Other novels
  • Implosion (1967)
  • Don't Pick the Flowers (1971, a.k.a. Denver is Missing)
  • The Floating Zombie (1975)
  • Xeno (1979, a.k.a. Earth Has Been Found)
  • Bound in Time (1981)

See also

References

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

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