The nightmare factor

Frank M. Robinson is the author of Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales. He's a writer who knows his way around a good sci-fi story. You'll find plenty of imaginative ideas packed into his short fiction.

Thomas Nicholas Scortia was born in Alton, Illinois. In 1949, he received a degree in chemistry from Washington University in St. Louis. He went on to work for a number of aerospace companies, while writing in his spare time. In the early 1970s, he left his job to write full-time. He died of leukemia in California in 1986.