Frank m robinson biography part

Entry updated 13 January 2025. Tagged: Author.

(1926-2014) US editor and author, who began his career as an office boy with Ziff-Davis in the 1940s, where he first met his long-time colleague William Hamling; he began to publish work of genre interest with "The Maze" in Astounding for June 1950 and was for a time fairly prolific.

At the end of this early period he released his first (and for decades his only) solo novel, The Power (1956), a tale which effectively combines sf and thriller in the story of the search for a malignant Superman with undefined Psi Powers or Superpowers, including the ability to seem different to everyone who looks at him.

The protagonist, himself paranormally gifted, kills the bad superman and contemplates being a good one.

Frank m robinson author

It was filmed as ThePower in 1967. Robinson then fell relatively silent – fewer than half the stories assembled in A Life in the Day of ... and Other Short Stories (coll 1981) were written after The Power – an