By Harris Lentz, III
Novelist and aviation writer Robert J. Serling was the older brother of Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling. He assisted his brother as an aviation advisor on the 1956 Studio One episode The Arena and the 1961 Twilight Zone outing The Odyssey of Flight 33. He was best know as the author of the 1967 best-selling novel The President’s Plane Is Missing. The political thriller was adapted as tele-film in 1973 starring Buddy Ebsen and Peter Graves.
Serling was born in Cortland, New York, on March 28, 1918. He first served as an aircraft identification instructor during World War II. He worked with United Press International in Washington, D.C., as a reporter and managed the Radio News Division from 1945 to 1960. He served as Upi’s aviation editor from 1960 to 1966. He was co-author with astronaut Frank Borman on the 1988 book Countdown: An Autobiography of Frank Borman, and penned the 1990 thriller Something’s Alive on the Titanic.
Novelist and aviation writer Robert J. Serling was the older brother of Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling. He assisted his brother as an aviation advisor on the 1956 Studio One episode The Arena and the 1961 Twilight Zone outing The Odyssey of Flight 33. He was best know as the author of the 1967 best-selling novel The President’s Plane Is Missing. The political thriller was adapted as tele-film in 1973 starring Buddy Ebsen and Peter Graves.
Serling was born in Cortland, New York, on March 28, 1918. He first served as an aircraft identification instructor during World War II. He worked with United Press International in Washington, D.C., as a reporter and managed the Radio News Division from 1945 to 1960. He served as Upi’s aviation editor from 1960 to 1966. He was co-author with astronaut Frank Borman on the 1988 book Countdown: An Autobiography of Frank Borman, and penned the 1990 thriller Something’s Alive on the Titanic.
- 5/20/2010
- by Harris Lentz
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
With our favorite time of year just around the corner, Fango’s got news of a trio of literary terrors to keep you occupied throughout the fall. And if you’re partial to anthologies and short-story collections, get ready to rejoice.
First up, Running Press has just put out the third volume in its Dark Delicacies series, subtitled Haunted, and it looks to be their biggest yet. Edited by Del Howison and Jeff Gelb, Dark Delicacies III features 20 new works by the likes of genre legend Clive Barker, Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk, Masters Of Horror creator Mick Garris, Jeepers Creepers director Victor Salva, 100 Feet’s Eric Red, veteran horror scribe Richard Christian Matheson, Fango contributor Axelle Carolyn, First Blood author David Morrell and many more, with a foreword by The Shining actor Steven Weber.
Also arriving this month is Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories On The 50th Anniversary, a...
First up, Running Press has just put out the third volume in its Dark Delicacies series, subtitled Haunted, and it looks to be their biggest yet. Edited by Del Howison and Jeff Gelb, Dark Delicacies III features 20 new works by the likes of genre legend Clive Barker, Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk, Masters Of Horror creator Mick Garris, Jeepers Creepers director Victor Salva, 100 Feet’s Eric Red, veteran horror scribe Richard Christian Matheson, Fango contributor Axelle Carolyn, First Blood author David Morrell and many more, with a foreword by The Shining actor Steven Weber.
Also arriving this month is Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories On The 50th Anniversary, a...
- 9/9/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Samuel Zimmerman)
- Fangoria
Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories On The 50th Anniversary edited by Carol Serling (Tor, tpb, 448 pp, $14.99, out September 1)
Fifty years ago, man discovered the Twilight Zone. Specifically, that man was teleplaywright Rod Serling, who won acclaim for such 1950s dramatic endeavors as Requiem For A Heavyweight and Patterns. Another teleplay, The Time Element (a time-tripping endeavor back to Pearl Harbor just before December 7, 1941), led Serling to chart a land of mystery and imagination he named The Twilight Zone. It became TV’s greatest Sf series (sorry, Star Trek), made on-camera host Serling a genre icon and spawned (after Serling’s 1975 death) a movie, two TV program revivals and a well-regarded fiction magazine (published in the 1980s).
Edited by the brilliant T.E.D. Klein, Rod Serling’S The Twilight Zone Magazine was a terrific publication with an unwieldy title. The highlight of every issue was an actual Twilight Zone script (usually by Serling,...
Fifty years ago, man discovered the Twilight Zone. Specifically, that man was teleplaywright Rod Serling, who won acclaim for such 1950s dramatic endeavors as Requiem For A Heavyweight and Patterns. Another teleplay, The Time Element (a time-tripping endeavor back to Pearl Harbor just before December 7, 1941), led Serling to chart a land of mystery and imagination he named The Twilight Zone. It became TV’s greatest Sf series (sorry, Star Trek), made on-camera host Serling a genre icon and spawned (after Serling’s 1975 death) a movie, two TV program revivals and a well-regarded fiction magazine (published in the 1980s).
Edited by the brilliant T.E.D. Klein, Rod Serling’S The Twilight Zone Magazine was a terrific publication with an unwieldy title. The highlight of every issue was an actual Twilight Zone script (usually by Serling,...
- 8/28/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (David McDonnell)
- Starlog
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