- Author: Oscar J. Friend Author Record # 1244
- Legal Name: Friend, Oscar Jerome
- Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Birthdate: 9 January 1898
- Deathdate: 19 January 1963
- Language: English
- Webpages: Fancyclopedia 3, SFE, Wikipedia-EN
- Used These Alternate Names: Oscar Friend, Owen Fox Jerome, Frank Johnson, Ford Smith
- Additional Biographical Data: Bio:Oscar J. Friend
- Author Tags: science fiction (2), hard sf (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), evolution (1), Martians (1)
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Novels
- The Hand of Horror (1927) [only as by Owen Fox Jerome]
-
The Kid from Mars (1949)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Un Martien sur la Terre [French] (1953)
- Translation: Mann vom Mars in besonderer Mission [German] (1956)
- Serializations:
- The Kid from Mars (Complete Novel) (1940)
- The Star Men (1963)
- Captain Future Magazine
- Captain Future - 1941 (1941)
- Captain Future - 1942 (1941)
- Captain Future - 1943 (1942)
- Captain Future - 1944 (1943)
- Startling Stories
- Startling Stories - 1941 (1941) [also as by uncredited]
- Startling Stories - 1942 (1942)
- Startling Stories - 1943 (1943)
- Startling Stories - 1944 (1944)
- Wonder Stories Group
- Captain Future magazine reissues
- Captain Future, Summer 1942 (2008)
- Captain Future, Summer 1943 (2009)
- Captain Future, Winter 1944 (2015)
- Captain Future, Fall 1941 (2016)
- Captain Future, Spring 1942 (2016)
- Captain Future, Winter 1942 (2017)
- Captain Future, Fall 1942 (2017)
- Captain Future, Spring 1944 (2022)
- Startling Stories magazine reissues
- Startling Stories, January 1942 (2011)
- Startling Stories, March 1943 (2012)
- Startling Stories, September 1942 (2014)
- Startling Stories, January 1943 (2014)
- Startling Stories, July 1942 (2015)
- Startling Stories, March 1942 (2018)
- Startling Stories, May 1942 (2018)
- Startling Stories, November 1941 (unknown)
- Startling Stories, September 1941 (unknown)
- Thrilling Wonder Stories magazine reissues
- From Off This World (1949) with Leo Margulies
- My Best Science Fiction Story (1949) with Leo Margulies
-
The Giant Anthology of Science Fiction (1954)
with
Leo Margulies
also appeared as:
- Variant: Race to the Stars (1958)
- Roar of the Rocket (1950)
- Footsteps in the Dark (1931) [only as by Owen Fox Jerome]
- Tibetan Horror (1938) [only as by Owen Fox Jerome]
- Of Jovian Build (1938)
- Robot A-1 (1939)
- Experiment with Destiny (1939)
- Coup d'état (1939)
- Mind Over Matter (1940)
- Station Death (1940)
- Roar of the Rocket (1940)
- Glamour Girl—2040 (1940)
- The Worms Turn (1940)
-
The Impossible Highway (1940)
also appeared as:
-
Translation: Die unmögliche Straße?Die unmoegliche Strasse[German] (1980)
-
Translation:
- The Stolen Spectrum (1940)
- Colossus from Space (1940) [also as by Frank Johnson]
- Jessamin's Death (1940)
- Blind Victory (1941)
- The Water World (1941)
- This Is Hell (1942)
- British Thermal Units (1942) [only as by Owen Fox Jerome]
- Meteorite Enigma (1942) [only as by Owen Fox Jerome]
- The Molecule Monsters (1942)
- Ali Baba, Junior (1942)
- Venusian Quartz (1943)
- Sun Engine (1943) [only as by Owen Fox Jerome]
- Venusian Nightmare (1944) [only as by Ford Smith]
- Gas Attack (1944) [only as by Ford Smith]
- The Serum Rubber Man (1944) [only as by Ford Smith]
- Helicopter Invasion (1944) [only as by Ford Smith]
- The Cosmic Chain (1945) [only as by Ford Smith]
- I Get Off Here (1945) [only as by Ford Smith]
- Are You There, Charlie? (1945) [only as by Ford Smith]
- Filterable Virus (1953)
- Today Is Forever (1958) [only as by Oscar Friend]
- Thrills in Science
- Thrills in Science (Startling Stories, November 1941) (1941)
- Thrills in Science (Startling Stories, January 1942) (1942)
- Thrills in Science: Thumbnail Sketches of Great Men and Achievements: Oxygen for Pegasus (1942)
- Thrills in Science: Thumbnail Sketches of Great Men and Achievements: Quick as a Flash (1942)
- Thrills in Science: Thumbnail Sketches of Great Men and Achievements: Secrets of the Spectroscope (1942)
- Thrills in Science (Startling Stories, March 1942) (1942)
- Thrills in Science (Startling Stories, May 1942) (1942)
- Thrills in Science (Startling Stories, July 1942) (1942)
- Thrills in Science: Thumbnail Sketches of Great Men and Achievements: Masters of Time: The Impious Clock (1942)
- Thrills in Science: Thumbnail Sketches of Great Men and Achievements: Masters of Time: The Sundial (1942)
- Thrills in Science: Thumbnail Sketches of Great Men and Achievements: Masters of Time: The Water Thief (1942)
- Thrills in Science (Startling Stories, September 1942) (1942)
- Thrills in Science: Thumbnail Sketches of Great Men and Achievements: Descent Into the Atom (1942)
- Thrills in Science: Thumbnail Sketches of Great Men and Achievements: The Eyes of Space (1942)
- Thrills in Science: Thumbnail Sketches of Great Men and Achievements: Wheels in the Head (1942)
- Thrills in Science (1942)
- Thrills in Science: Thumbnail Sketches of Great Men and Achievements: "Got a Match, Bud?" (1943)
- Thrills in Science: Thumbnail Sketches of Great Men and Achievements: A Man of Steel (1943)
- Thrills in Science: Thumbnail Sketches of Great Men and Achievements: The First Torpedo Ever Unleashed! (1943)
- Thrills in Science: Thumbnail Sketches of Great Men and Achievements: Spinning Like a Top (1943)
- Thrills in Science: Thumbnail Sketches of Great Men and Achievements: The Durability of Stone (1943)
- Thrills in Science: Thumbnail Sketches of Great Men and Achievements: The Hot-Air Merchant (1943)
- Thrills in Science (Startling Stories, June 1943) (1943)
- Thrills in Science (Startling Stories, Winter 1943-1944) (1943)
- Thrills in Science (Startling Stories, Fall 1944) (1944)
- Thrills in Science (Startling Stories, Winter 1945) (1945)
- Thrills in Science (Startling Stories, Summer 1945) (1945)
- The Story Behind the Story: Roar of the Rocket (1940)
- The Story Behind the Story: The Impossible Highway (1940)
- Meet the Author: Eastward Ho! (1940)
- The Story Behind the Story: The Stolen Spectrum (1940)
- Meet thet Author: The H2O Kid (1941)
- Into the Stratosphere (1941)
- Scatter-Gun for Microbes (1941)
- The Magical Prism (1941)
- Oxygen for Pegasus (1942)
- Quick as a Flash (1942)
- Secrets of the Spectroscope (1942)
- Boneyard Detective (1942)
- Painless Dentist (1942)
- Riding on Air (1942)
- Thrills in Science (Startling Stories, January 1943) (1943)
- The Future of Captain Future: A Forecast for Next Issue (1943)
- Self-Made Science: Thales Had No Tools of Equipment—Only His Brain! (1944)
- Smooth as Silk: The Story of Count de Chardonnet, Father of Rayon (1944)
- Waves of Genius: How Rudolf Hertz Drew Scientific Secrets from the Air (1944)
- Thrills in Science (Startling Stories, Summer 1944) (1944)
- Introduction (From Off This World) (1949) with Leo Margulies
- Introduction (My Best Science Fiction Story) (1949) with Leo Margulies
- (foreword to Stolen Centuries) (1954)
- Introduction (The Giant Anthology of Science Fiction) (1954) with Leo Margulies
- Introduction to the Pocket Book Edition (1954) with Leo Margulies
- Letter (Riverside Quarterly, January 1970) (1970)
- Letter to P. M. Kuykendall, March 14, 1954 (2011)