The Jameson Satellite, by Neil R. Jones
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The Jameson Satellite, by Neil R. Jones- Amazon Sales Rank: #8076493 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-21
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .7" w x 6.00" l, .12 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 30 pages
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Hopeful immortal meets truly immortal mechanical men By 2theD Neil R. Jones was a relatively minor writer during the 1930s and his career as a writer eventually tapered off through the decades of the 40s, 50s, and 60s. Best known for this series with Professor Jameson, Jones also wrote a smattering of other science fiction tales through the 30s and 40s before dedicating his time exclusively to the Professor Jameson series.Merely 8,600 words long, this novelette was first publish in July 1931 with Amazing Stories. This story can also be found in Issac Asimov's anthology Before the Golden Age: A Science Fiction Anthology of the 1930s along with twenty-two other stories and a slew of essays. Additionally, The Jameson Satellite was bound with two other stories (The Planet of the Double Sun and The Return of the Tripeds) to form the 123 page collection The Planet of the Double Sun, which completes the Professor Jameson Space Adventure "trilogy" of sorts. Thereafter, twenty-one more stories involving Professor Jameson were published in Amazing Stories, Astonishing Stories, Super Science Stories, and Ace Books. (Check Project Gutenberg for the free eBook)Professor Jameson brainstorms of ways to preserve the human body after death, but realizes that any earthy means of preservation decay and putrescence. It's only the realm of the vacuum of space which he considers to be the perfect median for the preservation of human tissue. The Professor's nephew assisted the corpse into a ready-made rocket which is configured to revolve around earth in a lofty orbit. In order to dodge incoming meteors, the capsule is equipped with radium repellent rays.Many years pass by; the sun has ballooned in a red giant, humanity has disappeared from the planet's face, and the machine men of Zor enter our solar system to idly survey the sun's second and third planet. Astonished to find a metallic capsule orbiting the planet, the machine men counteract the repellent rays and pull the capsule into their craft. Witnessing a single organic being within, the Zorome named 8B-52 revives the cells of the brain and places it into robotic carriage.The Professor awakens to strange sensations and acts calmly when confronted with the machine men. With solipsistic detachment, the Professor answers questions about old Earth's orbiting parameters and, together, they ascertain that the human had been in an inwardly spiral orbit for the last forty million years. The machine men and the human descend to earth only to fatalistically realize that any remnants of earth's civilizations would have been turned to dust eons ago.While atop a cinder cone, the Professor suffers mechanical failures after he falls to the volcanic floor. The machine men come to his rescue and is placed into a new mechanical body. Soon, the professor must decide whether to survey the stars with his mechanical counterparts, live his eternal life in his bucket for a body upon the earth... or to suicide to escape his situation.The grimness of the last quarter of the story is something I never thought 1930s science fiction ever took into account. The Professor's wish for immortality came when he launched himself into space to preserve his corpse, but when he confronts the reality of the situation in his now eternal mechanical body, he has second thoughts about it. The Professor doubts his abilities in being able to cope with the ever-present attention of the Zorome mechanical men after his race had long died out.An affection for the words strange (20 times) and queer (15 times), the prologue and four chapters of the story feel jerky with the word repetition. Not exactly linguistically talented, the emotion of the Professor moves the plot along more so than any other factor. Second to the emotion, the notion of a dead earth and the mechanical aliens who visit it for survey are interesting enough to provide a bit of steam through to the finish.The science of the "automatic radium repulsion rays" may have been a shot in the dark in terms of functionality, but at least its better than Edgar Rice Burroughs' mysterious transportation of John Carter to the planet Mars, better than Alfred Bester's jaunting of Gully Foyle, and marginally better than E. E. "Doc" Smith's platinum group element stimulus. What really stands out here is Neil's use of robotic aliens as surveyors of planetary systems and their melancholic attitude towards their own immortality.It's an interesting bit of science fiction from eighty years ago and the essence of the story should stand the test of time.
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