The Power (Robinson novel)

The Power is a 1956 science fiction novel by American writer Frank M. Robinson. It first appeared in the March 1956 edition of Blue Book magazine and then in a standalone book published by J. B. Lippincott in May that year.[1] Its protagonist, a researcher named Tanner, discovers evidence of a person with psychic abilities among his coworkers. As he tries to uncover the superhuman, his existence is erased and his associates murdered, until he faces a showdown with an apparently invincible opponent.

For the 1962 novel by Howard Fast, see Power (Fast novel). For the 2016 novel by Naomi Alderman, see The Power (Alderman novel).
Cover of the first standalone edition.

The novel was made into a Studio One television episode and a 1968 film under the same name.

Reception

Galaxy reviewer Floyd C. Gale praised the novel as "a harrowing chase that will have you biting your nails."[2] Anthony Boucher found that the novel's logical extrapolation was "not so much absurd as just absent. . . . . there has never been a less credible picture of the next step in evolution"; but he, too, praised Robinson's melodramatic storytelling.[3]

References
  1. www.isfdb.org Retrieved 2015-12-23.
  2. "Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf", Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1956, p.93
  3. "Recommended Reading," F&SF, July 1956, p.94.


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