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Frank M. Robinson

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Frank M. Robinson


Born
in Chicago, The United States
August 09, 1926

Died
June 30, 2014

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Frank M. Robinson was an American science fiction and techno-thriller writer. he got his start writing for the old pulp fiction magazines. He wrote several novels with Thomas N. Scortia until Scortia's death in 1986.

Born in Chicago, Illinois. Robinson was the son of a check forger. He started out in his teens working as a copy boy for International News Service 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 attended Beloit College, where he majored in physics, graduating in 1950. Because he could find no work as a writer, he ended up back in the Navy to serve in Korea, where he kept writing, read a lot, and published in Astounding magazine.

After the Navy, he attended g
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“A threat to kill is unreal--actual blood and shredded flesh has its own reality.”
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“looked back only once, to glance at the spot where Little Fox had been given to the Spirit of the Flames”
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