D. F. Jones

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

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)

Film Adaptation

• Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970), directed by Joseph Sargent, based on his 1966 novel Colossus

See also

• Colossus computer