Jones also wrote the story upon which the episode "The Children's Room" was based for the television program Tales of Tomorrow in 1952. His short story "The Alien Machine", first published in the June, 1949 Thrilling Wonder Stories, was later expanded into the novel This Island Earth, along with two other short stories, "The Shroud of Secrecy", and "The Greater Conflict", known as The Peace Engineers Trilogy, featuring the character Cal Meacham. His short story Noise Level is known as one of his best works. His stories were published mainly in magazines such as Thrilling Wonder Stories, Astounding Stories, and Galaxy. Jones' career was at its peak during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. He is best known for his 1952 novel, This Island Earth, which was adapted into the 1955 film This Island Earth and for the short story "The Children's Room", which was adapted for television as Episode Two of the ABC network show Tales of Tomorrow, first aired on February 29, 1952. Iris Jones, Space, Time, and Culture Among the Iraqw of Tanzania (Studies in. Jones 3.44 36 ratings3 reviews High adventure in time and space, this novel represents the division that can be drawn between Jones' early period of writing and the final few years of his career in which much of the hard science of his previous work is toned down. Raymond Fisher Jones (November 15, 1915, Salt Lake City, Utah - January 24, 1994, Sandy, Salt Lake County, Utah) was an American science fiction author.
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