JONES, Robert F(rancis)

(1934-)

   US journalist (with Time-Life) and writer whose sf novel, Blood Sport: A Journey up the Hassayampa (1974; vt Ratnose 1975 UK), follows a man and his son up the Hassayampa River, along whose banks the future, the present and the past exist simultaneously, together with every imaginable culture as well as the villain Ratnose, against whom the protagonists must prove themselves.

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