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Originally Posted by Amalthia
The Darkness Beyond the Stars by Frank Robinson. I think he only ever wrote one novel?
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He wrote quite a few books in various genres - and won a Hugo for his history of the genre - and was a staple in Astounding in the fifties.
The movie "The Towering Inferno" is based in part on a novel he co-wrote. I think the issue with Frank Robinson is not so much that he was a one-hit wonder as he was much more a short story writer, and that the majority of his SF output came when the field was dominated by the shorter forms.
Disclaimer: I have read the entire decade of the fifties for Astounding, Galaxy, and (Worlds of) If magazines.