Novels
- The Power (1956)
- The Glass Inferno (1974)
- The Prometheus Crisis (1975)
- The Nightmare Factor (1978)
- The Gold Crew (1980)
- The Dark Beyond the Stars (1981)
- The Great Divide (1982)
- Blowout! (1987)
- Death of a Marionette (1995)
- Waiting (1999)
- The Donor (2004)
Omnibus
- Cosmic Saboteur / Look to the Stars (2012)
Collections
- A Life in the Day of… (1981)
- The Frank M. Robinson Science Fiction MEGAPACK (2021)
Novellas
- Two Weeks in August (1951)
- You Don’t Walk Alone (1955)
- Decision (2016)
- The Reluctant Heroes (2016)
Non fiction
- Science Fiction of the 20th Century (1988)
- Pulp Culture (1999)
- Not So Good a Gay Man (2017)
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Frank M Robinson Books Overview
The Dark Beyond the Stars
For two thousand years, the starship Astron has search the galaxy for alien life without success. Now, just as the ship is falling apart, the only direction left to explore is across the Dark, a one hundred generation journey through empty space. The ship’s captain immortal, obessed refuses to abandon the quest. He will cross the Dark, or destroy the ship trying. Only Sparrow, a young crewman uncertain of his own past, can stand against the captain, and against the lure and challenge of The Dark Beyond the Stars…
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The Great Divide
In the hallowed halls of the capital, some who have sworn to preserve our nation’s union are secretly plotting its demise and they are willing to kill to achieve their goals. The country has been split into two distinct factions over energy ‘the haves’ those states that are fuel self sufficient and ‘the have nots’. The inept execution of a flawed foreign policy in the Middle East has resulted in an Arab backed oil embargo of the United States. Now the country is in the grips of the most severe winter in years, and rationing has led to unrest and rioting in the streets and certain politicians and business power brokers are ready to make a move. As mas*ses freeze in Chicago and the northeast, fuel sufficient sunbelt conspirators seek to separate themselves from the rest of the nation, make their own foreign policy, and govern by their own rules and to do it they will resort to blackmail, bribery, and even murder. The Constitution is only a stumbling block, and it can be amended. The United States will be united no more.
Waiting
From the author who brought us the distinguished spy thriller Death of a Marionette and The Towering Inferno, one of the most popular films of the ’70s, comes Waiting, an intense novel of contemporary menace, in the mode of Robinson’s 1950s classic, The Power. There are people living among us, who look just like normal human beings. They’ve been here for a long time Waiting. But they aren’t exactly like us at all. Some of them can read minds, and in subtle ways take over what your are thinking, control you for a while. They can make you love. They can make you die. One ordinary man in San Francisco, Arthur Banks, begins to find them out, and immediately his life and his family are in danger. It’s a paranoid’s worst nightmare. But that’s just where it starts. He may well be fighting for the survival of the entire human race.’I’ve always maintained that Frank M. Robinson’s The Power was one of the best terror tales ever told. Waiting is even better, rich with character, suspense and constant surprise. This is one of the best chillers of the entire decade. It is guaranteed to give you nightmares. Reading this book was a pure pleasure.’ Mystery Scene
The Donor
ennis Heller wakes up in a small private hospital after a minor car accident to discover that one of his organs is missing. Worse yet, he soon learns that this is the second organ to be harvested from him. Now Dennis must run for his life. Clearly, someone, somewhere, is a close match for him and is powerful enough to steal Dennis’s organs for transplant purposes. The next time, Dennis might lose his heart or lungs. He won’t wake up after that…
Rivaling the best work of Robin Cook and Michael Crichton, The Donor drags the frightening reality of modern day organ theft into the cold light of day.
Pulp Culture
From its origins in the late nineteenth century, when adventure stories reigned, through almost six decades of slinking sleuths, galloping ghouls, nitty gritty gals, and invincible warriors, the pulp magazine transported readers to new frontiers of the mind. The proving ground for scores of writers and illustrators who went on to achieve great fame, these publications helped popularize authors such as Dashiell Hammett, Ray Bradbury, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Taken collectively, they now provide a panorama of some sixty years of illustration and social commentary. Hailed as ‘lush’ by the New York Times, this is the most comprehensive compilation ever published on the subject. Winner of the ‘Pop Culture Book of the Year’ by the Independent Publisher’s Association, it is a must for graphic artists, fiction lovers, and anyone who appreciates the art of pulp fiction’s golden age.
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