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Frank M. Robinson Biography, part 2
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Author
The Donor, Forge Books 2004
The Great Divide (with John Levin), Forge Books 2004
Art of Imagination (with Robert Weinberg, Randy Broecker), Collectors Press, 2002
Science Fiction of the 20th Century, Collectors Press 1999
Waiting, Forge Books 1999
Pulp Culture (with Lawrence Davidson), Collectors Press 1998
Death of a Marionette (with Paul Hull), Forge Books 1995
The Dark Beyond the Stars, Tor Books 1991
Blow-Out (with Thomas N. Scortia), Franklin Watts 1987
The Great Divide (with John Levin), Rawson/Wade 1982
A Life in the Day Of... (Short story collection), Bantam 1981
The Gold Crew (with Thomas N. Scortia), Warner Books 1980
The Nightmare Factor (with Thomas N. Scortia), Doubleday 1978
The Prometheus Crisis (with Thomas N. Scortia), Doubleday 1975
The Glass Inferno (with Thomas N. Scortia), Doubleday 1974
The Power, J.B. Lippincott 1956
Editor
Sex, Amercian Style (with Nat Lehrman), Playboy Press 1971
The Truth About Vietnam (with Earl Kemp), Greenleaf 1966
Books into Films
The Power, MGM 1968 (Producer, George Pal)
The Towering Inferno, 20th / Warners 1974 (Producer, Irwin Allen)
The Fifth Missile (aka The Gold Crew), NBC weekly movie 1986
Film Scripts
Inferno, Paramount 1999 (not filmed)
The Dark Beyond the Stars, American Zoetrope 1997 (not filmed)
Articles and Stories
Playboy, Readers Digest, Cavalier, Gallery, Astounding Science Fiction, Galaxy, Beyond, etc., plus numerous anthologies.
Editorial Positions
Assistant Editor, Science Digest; Assistant Editor Family Weekly; Editor, Rogue Magazine; Editor, Censorship Today; Managing Editor, Cavalier; Staff Writer, Playboy; speech writer for martyred San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, etc.
Born:
Chicago, Ill.
Education
BS in Physics, Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin.
MS in Journalism, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.
Professional Societies
Phi Beta Kappa (scholastic)
Pi Kappa Alpha, President (social)
Omicron Delta Kappa (freshman honorary)
Phi Eta Sigma (journalistic)
Hobbies:
Pulp magazine collector
DVD movie collector
Military:
Navy radar technician, World War II, Korean War
Family status:
Single man living in San Francisco (yada, yada), nieces, nephews, sisters-in-laws, lots of friends, outgoing, charming, helpful, handsome (right)
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