{{Short description|British science fiction writer (1918–1981)}} {{more footnotes|date=October 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}}
'''Dennis Feltham Jones''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|OBE|VRD}}<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=44863 |date=14 June 1969 |page=5965 |supp=y}}</ref> (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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.venturepress.co.uk/authors/ |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160224124409/https://www.venturepress.co.uk/authors/|archive-date= 24 February 2016|title=Authors |work=Venture Press |accessdate=3 June 2017}}</ref>
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: *# ''Colossus'' (1966) *# ''The Fall of Colossus'' (1974) *# ''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
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/D_F_Jones.htm Fantastic Fiction] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20040112150106/http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/bibliography/fsfstorieswhoj02.htm SF Site] * {{isfdb name |name=D. F. Jones}} * [http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/jones_d_f Jones, D. F.] at The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
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