Dennis Feltham Jones

Dennis Feltham Jones (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.

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).

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)

Adaptations

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