Career
The Manitoba who Lived in Inner Space (1973). lieutenant concerns a marine biologist who is transformed into a new species of amphibious humanity, which can live in the ocean depths, Earth"s "inner space". Ice! (1978). lieutenant describes a return of the Ice Age in months, rather than centuries.
lieutenant tells of the realization that an Ice Age is rapidly approaching, yet only a few people know this.
And in effect, major weather changes begin to kill out large parts of Earth"s population before the glaciers even hit the higher latitudes. Many details of the plot, characters, and locale are similar to the 2004 film The Day After Tomorrow.
Federbush was born in New York, the son of a clothing manufacturer who had been a colleague in Palestine of Zeev Jabotinsky. His ambition was to be a screenwriter.
After some years working as a film editor for Black and others, and finding that pitches for screenplays were better received if they were based on already published books, he wrote his two novels, both of which were successful enough to be translated into many European languages.
However, he was diagnosed with lung cancer after it had already spread to his liver. He died with his third novel, concerning spontaneous human combustion, unfinished.