The Power (1956, 1st ed.) [ed. Jerry eBooks, 2018]; The Power [Revised version, Tor Edition 2000]; Short Fiction [ed. Jerry eBooks, 2020]
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Overview: Frank M. Robinson (August 9, 1926 – June 30, 2014)
was an American science fiction and techno-thriller writer. Robinson was born in Chicago, Illinois. The son of a check forger, Frank started out working as a copy boy for International Service in his teens and then became an office boy for Ziff-Davis. He was drafted into the Navy for World War II, and when his tour was over went to Beloit College where he majored in physics, graduating in 1950. Then, according to his official website, he could find no work as a writer, and wound up back in the Navy to serve in Korea, where he managed to keep writing, read a lot, and publish in the magazine Astounding. As of 2008, he 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 tense nuclear threat thriller and was filmed as an NBC miniseries re-titled The Fifth Missile.
Genre: Sci-Fi
The Power (1956)
Behind him the steps kept pace. The night hid their owner from sight but that wasn’t important. Bill Tanner knew why they were there, following. Soon his powerful antagonist would try to control him. His mind would blur, there would be a slackening of breathing power, and a hand would slowly tighten around his heart.
A week before, Professor Tanner, an anthropologist at a Midwest university, had been concerned solely with his work on a Navy-subsidized committee testing human endurance. Now he was concerned with survival, his own, for it had been unexpectedly revealed that one of the committee members was a being of superhuman abilities, as different from Twentieth Century man as man is from the ape. This knowledge has become the death warrant of everyone else on the committee.
To find the man (or woman?) with the Power and destroy before being destroyed—that is Bill Tanners task. It is a task which includes and involves the reader of this masterfully told tale, and which therefore leaves him nearly as terrified, taut and uncertain as Tanner himself. And in the end he, too, is surprised as he never thought he could be.
The Power (Revised version, Tor Edition 2000)
A science fiction thriller about a malevolent superhuman, a mutant masquerading as normal man. In this guise, the superman penetrates a secret committee convened to test the limits of human endurance and therefore keeps tabs on the government’s efforts to find those like him. One of the committee members begins to get an inkling that something isn’t quite as it should be, setting off a paranoid and paranormal cat-and-mouse game with all the players wondering who to trust.
This was Robinson’s first novel, written in his late twenties and first published in 1956.
Short Fiction (ed. Jerry eBooks, 2020)
1945
THE NETHER GARDENS
1950
THE MAZE
1951
THE SANTA CLAUS PLANET
THE RELUCTANT HEROES
SITUATION THIRTY
TWO WEEKS IN AUGUST
BEYOND THE ULTRA-VIOLET
“GOOD LUCK, COLUMBUS!”
THE FIRE AND THE SWORD
UNTITLED STORY
GOT TO BELIEVE
THE HUNTING SEASON
1952
THE GIRLS FROM EARTH
1953
VIEWPOINT
MUSCLE MAN
QUIZ GAME
THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED
DECISION
GUARANTEED—FOREVER!
THE SIREN SOUNDS AT MIDNIGHT
PLANTED!
1954
THE LONELY MAN
THE WORLDS OF JOE SHANNON
THE OCEANS ARE WIDE
ONE THOUSAND MILES UP
THE DEAD END KIDS OF SPACE
1955
COSMIC SABOTEUR
FOUR HOURS TO ETERNITY
DREAM STREET
YOU DON’T WALK ALONE
WANTED: ONE SANE MAN
1956
THE POWER
1972
“EAST WIND, WEST WIND”
1993
MERRY CHRISTMAS NO. 30267
1995
THE PHANTOM OF THE BARBARY COAST
2010
THE ERRAND BOY
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