# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/neil-r-jones
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:45:18.737Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/neil-r-jones"
name: "Neil R. Jones"
slug: "neil-r-jones"
description: "Neil Ronald Jones was an American writer who worked for the state of New York. His first story, \"The Death's Head Meteor,\" was published in Air Wonder Stories in 1930, possibly recording the first use of \"astronaut\" in fiction. He also pioneered cyborg and robotic characters, and is credited with inspiring the modern idea of cryonics. Most of his stories fit into a \"future history\" like that of Robert A. Heinlein or Cordwainer Smith, well before either of them used this convention in their fiction."
tagline: "American writer (1909-1988)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Neil_R_Jones_AWS_3001.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1909-05-29"
deathDate: "1988-02-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.48
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.014292
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2_(%D9%85%D8%A4%D9%84%D9%81)"
    title: "نيل جونز (مؤلف)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_R._Jones"
    title: "Neil R. Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_R._Jones"
    title: "Neil R. Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BBR%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BA"
    title: "ニール・R・ジョーンズ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_R._Jones"
    title: "Neil R. Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q324060"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump