Karlins, Marvin
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1941- ) US academic and author, usually of nonfiction relating to his professional work as a Professor of Management. His first book is sf, The Last Man Is Out (1969; vt The New Atoms' Bombshell 1980 as by Robert Browne), a Near Future tale in which a bored scientist uses Computers and other devices to maximize outcomes for the Baseball team he has inherited. Gomorrah (1974) with Lewis M Andrews is a sf crime thriller set in a nightmarishly transformed Near Future New York. [JC]
Marvin Karlins
born Minneapolis, Minnesota: 4 October 1941
works
- The Last Man Is Out (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1969) [hb/]
- The New Atoms' Bombshell (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 1980) as by Robert Browne [vt of the above: pb/H R van Dongen]
- Gomorrah (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1974) with Lewis M Andrews [hb/Kathy Lee Grant]
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