| The Worlds of Joe Shannon by Frank M. Robinson, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure Contributor(s): Robinson, Frank M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1606645404 ISBN-13: 9781606645406 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $6.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2011 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - General - Fiction | Science Fiction - Action & Adventure - Fiction | Fantasy - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.05" H x 6" W x 9" (0.10 lbs) 22 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Contributor Bio(s): Robinson, Frank M.: - "Frank M. Robinson (1926 - 2014) was an American science fiction and techno-thriller writer. After moving to San Francisco in the 1970s, Robinson, who was gay, was a speechwriter for gay politician Harvey Milk; he had a small role in the film Milk. After Milk's assassination, Robinson was co-executor, with Scott Smith, of Milk's last will and testament. Robinson was the author of 16 books, the editor of two others and has penned numerous articles. 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, co-written with Thomas N. Scortia, was combined with Richard Martin Stern's The Tower to produce the 1974 movie The Towering Inferno. The Gold Crew, also co-written Scortia, was a nuclear threat thriller filmed as an NBC miniseries and re-titled The Fifth Missile. He collaborated on several other works with Scortia, including The Prometheus Crisis, The Nightmare Factor and Blow-Out. More recent works include The Dark Beyond the Stars (1991) and an updated version of The Power (2000), which closely followed Waiting (1999), a novel with similar themes to The Power. His novel The Donor is a medical thriller about organ theft. In the 1970s, Robinson started seriously collecting the vintage pulp-fiction magazines that he had grown up reading. The collection spawned a book on the history of the pulps as seen through their vivid cover art: Pulp Culture: The Art of Fiction Magazines (with co-author Lawrence Davidson). He attended numerous pulp conventions and in 2000 won the coveted Lamont Award for lifetime achievement at Pulpcon." |