Jerome Bixby

• 1953
• / Horror
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REELING FROM THE REELS What was the original inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO? Where did David Cronenberg get the idea for THE FLY? Who dreamed up the character that Arnold Schwarzeneggar played in TOTAL RECALL? If you have ever wondered...

• Dec-2010
• / General Fiction
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Stories of the old West were filled with bad men who lived by the speed of their gun hand. Well, meet Buck Tarrant, who could outdraw them all. His secret: he didn't even have to reach for his weapon.......

• Sep-2012
• / General Fiction
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(Excerpt): "Spaceship crews should be selected on the basis of their non-irritating qualities as individuals. No chronic complainers, no hypochondriacs, no bugs on cleanliness -- particularly no one-man parties. I speak from bitter experience. Becaus...

• Jan-2014
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-2014
• / General Fiction
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The main trouble is that you'd never suspect anything was wrong; you'd enjoy associating with slizzers, so long as you didn't know.......

• Nov-2014
• / Science Fiction
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"…Breathtaking skill ... interesting dialogue, a carefully constructed story, and an appealing message. Bixby should be better known." -- Gary Westfahl Jerome Bixby (1923â€"1998) was a highly regarded professional science fiction magazine editor a...

• Nov-2014
• / General Fiction
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Mirror, Mirror, the first collection of Jerome Bixby's science fiction in nearly fifty years, showcases three forgotten pulp magazine stories by that Bixby adapted for the acclaimed Star Trek episode.Before he wrote four fan-favorite Star Trek episod...

• Feb-2019
• / Science Fiction
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Classic Science-Fiction NovelThe jets got all the young ones in SmokyCreek. Only the old folks were left -- withtheir memories. And the jets -- friendlyor hostile -- would never get them.... ...

• Jan-2020
• / Science Fiction
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Worse things can happen on the ocean than watching your ship sink from a lifeboat. There are monsters everywhere, even on the water…...

• / Science Fiction
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Science said it could not be, but there it was. And whoosh -- look out -- here it is again!...

• / Science Fiction
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"If you called me here to tell me to have a child," Mary Pornsen said, "you can just forget about it. We girls have made up our minds."

Hugh Farrel, Chief Medical Officer of the Exodus VII -- the seed ship that'd colonized this world -- sigh...

• / Science Fiction
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The twenty-nine of us were E.T.I. Team 17, whose assignment was the asteroids. We were four years and three months out of Terra, and we'd reached Vesta right on schedule. Ten minutes after landing, we had known that the clod was part of the crust ...