Frank M Robinson (1926-2014)
03 July 2014

Frank M Robinson died on
30 June at the age of 87. His long publishing career began in
the 1940s and included such highlights as The Power
(1956; filmed 1967), The Dark Beyond the
Stars (1991) and the art book Science
Fiction of the Twentieth Century (1999). His
Technothriller The Glass
Inferno (1974), written with Thomas N Scortia, was half the source of
the film The Towering Inferno. He received SFWA's Special Honoree life achievement
honour (a rebranding of the former Author Emeritus) in 2014.