WANTED: One Sane Man by Frank M. Robinson Episode #15

Frank M. Robinson | May 3, 2022

WANTED: One Sane Man by Frank M. Robinson Episode #15
Frank M. Robinson

Do you remember the 1974 Hollywood blockbuster, The Towering Inferno? The movie starred Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Fred Astaire, Susan Blakely, Robert Vaughn, Robert Wagner and Richard Chamberlain. So what does that have to do with the author of our lost sci-fi short story? Well, after writing sci-fi for more than two decades Frank M. Robinson switched gears and started writing disaster novels with a partner. And one of those novels “The Glass Inferno” was used to create the Hollywood movie with a budget of $14 million that did more than $200 million at the box office. Robinson received a hefty payday.

From the pages of Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy in June 1955, WANTED: One Sane Man by Frank M. Robison…

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