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Frank M. Robinson (Frank Malcolm Robinson) (b. 1926) was born in Chicago, Illinois, and currently lives in San Francisco, California, with one of the foremost collections of pulp magazines in the world. After graduating from high school in 1943, he worked as an office boy at Amazing Stories before he was drafted into the Navy (where he served during World War II and the Korean War). His first science fiction story, “The Maze”, appeared in 1950 in Astounding Science Fiction, while his debut novel, The Power (1956), was filmed by George Pal in 1967. During the 1970s and ’80s he co-wrote a number of techno-thrillers with Thomas N. Scortia, such as The Glass Inferno (filmed as The Towering Inferno), The Prometheus Crisis, The Nightmare Factor, The Gold Crew (filmed by NBC-TV as The Fifth Missile) and Blow-Out! As well as collaborating with John Levine on the political novel "The Great Divide" and Paul Hull on the spy thriller "Death of a Marionette', Robinson’s solo science fiction novels include The Dark Beyond the Stars, Waiting and The Donor. In 1981 his short fiction was collected in A Life in the Day of . . . and Other Stories, while his recent non-fiction studies are Pulp Culture: The Art of Fiction Magazines and Science Fiction in the 20th Century: An Illustrated History (reprinted as part of Art of Imagination, along with studies by Robert Weinberg and Randy Broecker). He was assistant editor at "Science Digest" (1956-59, replacing Fritz Leiber), managing editor at Rogue (1959-65) and Cavalier (1965-66), and a staff writer with Playboy from 1969-73.