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Jameson and the other metal Titans of his band of Zoromes return to free the industrious race of Moeps from the oppression of the tyrannous Aemts.


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"We have seen no intelligent on this world yet," the professor remarked, "but still there seems to be a manifestation of mind force, thoughts close to us which are partly veiled.
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"It grows stronger up here," saidW,

Gbent over the edge of the projecting rampart and looked into the valleyfar below, The space ship was many miles down the valley and lost to sight,Mwas first to reach the plateau to which they were climbing and loosed a mental exclamation,

"What is it" asked the professor, scrambling up beside him and staring at a metal spheroid which glinted hack the rays of the sun.


"Spaceship or aircraft of some kind, "

All four were now on the plateau, surprised to find this striking example of civilization on what they had come to consider an uncivilized world.


"Dare we go any closer"Gsuggested,

"If any intelligent creatures inside had sinister aims against us, they would probably have executed them already while we stood watching, "

Professor Jameson suited this thought with a slow, deliberate approach, As the machine men came nearer, they saw that two metal doors were swung open, as if whoever had left the ship had not returned.
A sense of emptiness and loneliness pervaded the exterior of the craft, The four Zoromes stood and peered in through the doorways, Strange mechanisms and strange objects met their inquisitive sight, but they saw nothing living,

"I shall go inside," the professor decided, "Stay out here until we are sure everything is all right, "


Neil Ronald JonesMayFebruarywas an American author who worked for the state of New York, Not prolific, and little remembered today, Jones was groundbreaking in science fiction, His first story, The Deaths Head Meteor, was published in Air Wonder Stories in, recording the first use of astronaut, 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, Rating not even a cover mention, the first installment of Jones most popular creation, The Jameson Satellite, appeared in

the Julyissue Neil Ronald JonesMayFebruarywas an American author who worked for the state of New York.
Not prolific, and little remembered today, Jones was groundbreaking in science fiction, His first story, "The Death's Head Meteor", was published in Air Wonder Stories in, recording the first use of "astronaut", 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, Rating not even a cover mention, the first installment of Jones' most popular creation, "The Jameson Satellite", appeared in the Julyissue of Amazing Stories.
The hero was Professor Jameson, the last Earthman, who became immortal through the science of the Zoromes, Jameson was obsessed with the idea of perfectly preserving his body after death and succeeded by having it launched into space in a small capsule.
Jameson's body survived for,,years, where it was found orbiting a dead planet Earth by a passing Zorome exploration ship, The Zoromes, or machine men as they sometimes called themselves, were cyborgs, They came from a race of biological beings who had achieved immortality by transferring their brains to machine bodies, They occasionally assisted members of other races with this transition i, e. the Tri Peds and the Mumes, allowing others to become Zoromes and join them on their expeditions, which sometimes lasted hundreds of years, So, much like the Borg of the Star Trek series, a Zorome crew could be made up of assimilated members of many different biological species.
The Zoromes discovered that Jameson's body had been so well preserved that they were able to repair his brain, incorporate it into a Zorome machine body and restart it.
The professor joined their crew and, over the course of the series, participated in many adventures, even visiting Zor, the Zorome homeworld, where he met biological Zoromes.
The professor eventually rose to command his own crew of machine men on a new Zorome exploration ship, "The Jameson Satellite" proved so popular with readers that later installments in Amazing Stories got not only cover mentions but the cover artwork, Being cryopreserved and revived is an idea that would recur in SF, such as in Gene Roddenberry's Genesis II, One young science fiction fan who read The Jameson Satellite and drew inspiration from the idea of cryonics was Robert Ettinger, who became known as the father of cryonics.
The Zoromes are also credited by Isaac Asimov as one of the inspirations behind the robots of his Robot series, Masamune Shirow paid homage to Jones in his cyborg populated Ghost in the Shell saga by including a no frills brain in a box design, even naming them Jameson type cyborgs.
Jameson orMM, as he was known to his fellow metal beings was the subject of twenty one stories betweenand, when Jones stopped writing, with nine stories still unpublished.
In the lates, Ace Books editor Donald A, Wollheim compiled five collections, comprising sixteen of these, including two previously unpublished, In all there were thirty Jameson stories written twenty four eventually saw publication, six remain unpublished, and twenty two unrelated pieces, sitelink.