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Bone, J F

Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

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(1916-2006) US veterinarian, in the US Veterinary Corps for many years until 1976; subsequently a professor of veterinary medicine and author who began publishing sf with "Survival Type" in Galaxy for March 1957. His first sf novel, The Lani People (1962), is his most memorable, perhaps especially for the guilty and/or atavistic pleasures afforded male readers through his depiction of the Alien Lani, human-like females only happy when naked and when pleasing males; in the end, his account of the costs to this folk of human exploitation is graphically related. Later works, including three contributions to Roger Elwood's Laser Books imprint, are more routine.

Much of Bone's short fiction – thirty-odd stories in all – remains uncollected, though several have been released as individual ebooks [see Checklist below]. His most-anthologized tale is "Triggerman" (December 1958 Analog), in which World War Three is narrowly averted after the destruction of Washington by, as it emerges, a meteor impact. The posthumous collection Jesse F. Bone Resurrected (omni 2011) assembles eight previously reissued in ebook form, not including "Triggerman"; the selection seems to have been determined by convenience – availability as Project Gutenberg ebooks – rather than merit. Further ebooks have followed. [JC/DRL]

see also: Arts; Spindizzy.

Jesse Franklin Bone

born Tacoma, Washington: 15 June 1916

died Sierra Vista, Arizona: 6 January 2006

works

collections and stories

  • Pandemic (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2008) [story: ebook: first appeared February 1962 Analog: na/]
  • A Prize for Edie (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2008) [story: ebook: first appeared December 1960 Amazing: na/]
  • A Question of Courage (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2008) [story: ebook: first appeared February 1962 Analog: na/]
  • The Issahar Artifacts (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2009) [story: ebook: first appeared April 1960 Amazing: na/]
  • Noble Redman (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) [story: ebook: first appeared July 1960 Amazing: na/]
  • To Choke an Ocean (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) [story: ebook: first appeared September 1960 If: na/]
  • Assassin (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) [story: ebook: first appeared February 1958 If: na/]
  • Insidekick (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) [story: ebook: first appeared February 1959 Galaxy: na/]
  • Second Chance (Medford, Oregon: Armchair Fiction, 2011) [story: chap: first appeared February 1959 Satellite: pb/Ed Emshwiller as Emsh]
  • Cultural Exchange (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2016) [story: ebook: first appeared January 1960 If: na/]
  • Founding Father (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2016) [story: ebook: first appeared April 1962 Galaxy: na/]
  • On the Fourth Planet (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2016) [story: ebook: first appeared April 1963 Galaxy: na/]
  • Survival Type (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2016) [story: ebook: first appeared March 1957 Galaxy: na/]

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