Stay Off The Moon

by Raymond F Jones, Richard Kimball Jones (Editor)

Overview

Stay off the Moon is the fifth in a volume of ten e-books containing the complete collection of short stories written by Raymond F. Jones. These stories span the years from 1941-1974, and this is the first time this entire collection has ever been made available. Notable stories in this collection are: Test of the Gods, Forecast, Tools of the Trade, The Children�s Room, The Colonists, Stay off the Moon and Pacer II.
In the story Forecast, Jones who worked many years for the U.S. Weather Bureau in Phoenix, Arizona integrates his considerable knowledge of weather forecasting into a fascinating story of delivering weather on demand. Giant airships, a dozen or more are sent out to corral a massive weather front coming up from the Gulf, and move it across the continent to where the moisture can do the most good. But not everyone is happy with this arrangement and the result is conflict, sabotage and death.
Two things to watch for as you read this collection of stories, as well as the other nine books: vocabulary and colloquialism. Jones writes with a vocabulary that is pertinent to the story being told, but which you will probably find baffling as they�re words you�ve likely not encounter before. Hint: make a list of the words. Secondly, note the amusing colloquialism which was in vogue during the 40s, 50s and 60s.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940150520882
Publisher:	Richard Kimball Jones
Publication date:	10/02/2014
Series:	Complete Collection of Short Stories by Raymond F. Jones , #5
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Raymond F. Jones, 1915 � 1994 was a noted science-fiction writer, whose short stories were featured in sci-fi magazines of the first half of the twentieth century; the era when radio was still king, and reading about futuristic space travel, alien invaders, and colonization of earth-like planets in distant galaxies was still adventurous, and entertaining, in other words, the days before television took the joy out of reading. Now, for the first time ever, the complete library of Jones� short stories have been compiled into ten e-books containing seven stories each, with the exception of Noise Level with only five stories
Jones left the library of his short stories to his children, which consisted of manuscripts and copies of stories. Through a collaborative effort, these static pages, nearly 2500 of them were converted to a digital format using OCR (Optical character recognition) software, then converted again to both mobi and epub formats so that they can be read on e-readers.
As the publisher of my father�s short stories, I am astounded at the depth of the vocabulary he commanded and which readily spilled out onto the pages of his stories as though he had known the meaning and proper use of these words since grade school; words like Terpsichore to describe ballet dancing; coruscations to describe the blinding flashes of bright light when the big guns of a spaceship fire and cabalistic to describe the mysterious, esoteric and hidden meaning of hieroglyphic writings of long extinct civilizations.
Though he published his first science-fiction story while still in high school, and cranked out a few stories during the war year between 1941-1945, he began writing in earnest in 1946 after his venture in chicken ranching went belly-up. He cleaned out the cinder block chicken-coop he and my mother built, in Phoenix, Arizona, constructed a small office inside the building, equipped it with filing cabinets, a table made from a door, chairs and an antique, manual Underwood typewriter and began fantasizing about space travel. His studies in math, electronic and archaeology at the University of Utah, work at the Bendix Radio Corporation in Maryland and his war time years working for the U.S. Weather Bureau in Phoenix served him well in his ability to write logical and plausible space-fiction stories during his long career as a sci-fi writer. The story for which he is most remembered is This Island Earth, which was made into a movie in 1953. RK Jones