Career
An officer in the United States Navy, he was active in American pulp magazines during the Golden Age of Science Fiction. His writing career began when complications of throat cancer limited his activity. According to John West. Campbell Junior., Jameson "had much to do with the development of modern naval ordnance." Jameson"s first published fiction appeared in Astounding Science Fiction in 1938.
His story "Doubled and Redoubled" may be the earliest work of fiction to feature a time loop.
Alfred Bester described meeting Jameson in about 1939: "Mort Weisinger introduced me to the informal luncheon gatherings of the working science fiction authors of the late thirties. Malcolm Jameson, author of navy-oriented space stories, was there, tall, gaunt, prematurely grey, speaking in slow, heavy tones.
His novella "Blind Alley", first published in the June 1943 issue of Unknown, was the basis for the 1963 "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville" starring Albert Salmi, John Anderson, and Julie Newmar. The hour-long fourth season episode was broadcast on April 11, 1963.
The story was reprinted in The Twilight Zone: The Original Stories, edited by Martin H. Greenberg, Richard Matheson, and Charles G. Waugh, Avon, 1985, and in Unknown Worlds, edited by Stanley Schmidt and Martin H. Greenberg, Galahad Books, 1988.
Jameson had eleven stories published in the magazine Unknown/Unknown Worlds in the early 1940s: "Philtered Power", March 1940. "Doubled and Redoubled", February 1941. "Not According to Dante", June 1941.
"Even the Angels", August 1941.
"In His Own Image", February 1942. "The Old Ones Hear", June 1942.
"Fighters Never Quit", August 1942. "The Goddess" Legacy", October 1942.
"The Giftie Gien", April 1943.
"Blind Alley", June 1943. * (novelette) "Heaven Is What You Make lieutenant", August 1943. (novelette).
