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The article is about the Frank M. Robinson science fiction novel. For other uses of the term power, see Power (disambiguation).
The Power is a 1956 science fiction novel by Frank M. Robinson. 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 undefeatable opponent.
The novel was made into a Studio One television episode and a 1968 film under the same name.
The novel
Professor Bill Tanner, head of a Navy-funded human endurance project at a Chicago university, is surprised when one of his teammates, Jim Olson, uncovers the existence of a superhuman on the project — a person who can manipulate matter and people's minds psychically and remotely. When Olson inexplicably dies at home while writing to Tanner about someone named "Adam Hart", Tanner finds himself under suspicion for murder and is terminated from his university position. As his co-workers and students gradually forget he even exists, the beleaugered Tanner pursues traces of Hart to his hometown and back to Chicago. One by one, the project members wind up dead, leading Tanner to an inevitable confrontation with the ruthless superman.
The Studio One episode
CBS television anthology series Studio One broadcast an hour-long adaptation of Robinson's novel in an episode titled "The Power" on June 4, 1956. Directed by William H. Brown, it starred James Daly as Bill Tanner, Shepperd Strudwick as Navy liaison Commander Nordlund, and Theodore Bikel as physicist Karl Grossman.
External links and references
- The Power by Frank M. Robinson (ISBN 0-312-86654-2)
- Studio One's episode #359 "The Power" (1956) at TV.com *
"The Power"