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Very good. Size 21.5 x 22 Inches. This is a 1946 board for 'Interplanetary', an unpublished board game by pioneering science fiction writer Neil Ronald Jones. Although lesser known, Jones was one of the great early pioneers in the genre of science fiction, ranking with Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein, and Ray Bradbury. Jones was a lifelong devotee of board games and spent his spare time developing this game - although it appears not to have been published, this being one of only 5 known proof examples (all others are in private hands). The Game Entitled 'Interplanetary', the game consists of a series of wedges that create a circle around the center of the board, where a large rocket emblazoned with the game's title appears. Each wedge bears the name of a planet or moon in our Solar System. Illustrations of the planets, along with comets, moons, and other astronomical bodies, surround the wedges. Illustrations of the orbits of some of the planets as well as the relative circumference of Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus occupy the corners. While very little is known about gameplay, the game started on the wedge for Earth and must have proceeded clockwise, much like monopoly. Likewise, there also seems to have been some sort of currency component. Historical Mentions Per Bob Gay and Dan Neyer of the website Famous and Forgotten Fiction One leisure activity Jones mentioned on numerous occasions was his interest in board games. At some point in the post-war period, he invented a board game of his own called 'Interplanetary'. There is very little information about the game…Donald Tuck mentions it very briefly in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy , simply describing it as '…a disc and counters game which has proved quite popular'. The game must have had some distribution of sorts, since Tuck uses the word 'popular', yet a second citation for the game, found in the 1998 American Game Collectors Association game catalog simply lists Jones' name and the name of the game with no information about manufacturer, distributor, etc. Possibly Jones marketed the game himself. Publication History and Census This game was created by Neil R. Jones in 1946. This piece is not cataloged in OCLC and we are aware of only four other surviving examples, all in private hands.
Seller Inventory # Interplanetary-jones-1946-2
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