Frank M. Robinson

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For the man who named Coca-Cola, see Frank Mason Robinson; for other people named Frank Robinson, see Frank Robinson (disambiguation).

Frank M. Robinson (born 1926) in Chicago, Illinois, is a science fiction and techno-thriller writer. The son of a check forger ^[1], Frank started out working as a copy boy for International Service in his teens and then became an office boy for Ziff-Davis. ^[2]. He was drafted into the Navy for World War II, and when his tour was over went to college where he majored in Physics. Then, according to his official website, he could find no work as a writer, and wound up back in the Navy to serve in Korea, where he managed to keep writing, read a lot, and was published in the magazine Astounding to the delight of its readers. After the Navy he went to graduate school in journalism, then worked for a Chicago-based Sunday supplement. Soon after he switched to Science Digest. As of 2008, he is the author of 16 books, the editor of two others, and has penned numerous articles. ^[3] Three of his novels have been made into movies. The Power (1956) was a supernatural science fiction and government conspiracy novel about people with superhuman skills, filmed in 1968 as The Power. The technothriller The Glass Inferno was combined with Richard Martin Stern's The Tower to produce the 1974 movie The Towering Inferno. The Gold Crew co-written with Thomas N. Scortia, was a tense nuclear threat thriller and was filmed as an NBC miniseries re-titled The Fifth Missile.

Besides The Glass Inferno and The Gold Crew he collaborated on several other works with fellow author Thomas N. Scortia, including The Prometheus Crisis, The Nightmare Factor and Blow-Out. His newest novel is a medical thriller about organ theft called The Donor.