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Thomas N. Scortia was an American science fiction author and screenwriter. He was born in New York City on August 29, 1926. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, and served in the United States Navy during World War II. Scortia wrote several science fiction novels, including The Glass Inferno (1974), The Prometheus Crisis (1975), and The Nightmare Factor (1977). He also wrote the screenplay for the 1973 science fiction film The Andromeda Strain, which was based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. Scortia died on April 28, 1998, at the age of 71. He was survived by his wife, two sons, and two daughters. At the time of his death, Scortia had an estimated net worth of $2 million. He earned most of his wealth from his writing career, which spanned more than four decades.

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1986

Scortia died in La Verne, California on April 29, 1986 while being treated for leukemia.

1970

Scortia had been writing in his spare time while still working in the aerospace field. When the industry began to see increased unemployment in the early 1970s, Scortia decided to try his hand at full-time writing. His novel, The Glass Inferno (in collaboration with Frank M. Robinson) was, in combination with the novel The Tower by Richard Martin Stern, the basis for the 1974 film The Towering Inferno. Scortia also collaborated with Dalton Trumbo on the novel The Endangered Species.

1958

Harlan Ellison credited Scortia with having "literally saved [Ellison] from being courtmartialed back in 1958".

1949

Scortia was born in Alton, Illinois. He attended Washington University in St. Louis, where he earned a degree in chemistry in 1949. He worked for a number of aerospace companies during the 1950s and 1960s/early 1970s, and held a patent for the fuel used by one of the Jupiter fly-by missions.

1926

Thomas Nicholas Scortia (August 29, 1926 – April 29, 1986) was an American science fiction author. He collaborated on several works with fellow author Frank M. Robinson. He sometimes used the pseudonyms "Scott Nichols", "Gerald MacDow", and "Arthur R. Kurtz".

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