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Jerome Bixby


Born
in Los Angeles, California, The United States
January 11, 1923

Died
April 28, 1998

Genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy


Drexel Jerome Lewis Bixby (January 11, 1923 Los Angeles, California – April 28, 1998 San Bernardino, California) was a American short story writer, editor and scriptwriter, best known for his comparatively small output in science fiction. He also wrote many westerns and used the pseudonyms D. B. Lewis, Harry Neal, Albert Russell, J. Russell, M. St. Vivant, Thornecliff Herrick and Alger Rome (for one collaboration with Algis Budrys).

He was the editor of Planet Stories from Summer 1950 to July 1951; and editor of Two Complete Science Adventure Novels from Winter 1950 to July 1951.

Probably his best-known work is the Star Trek: The Original Series 1967 episode "Mirror, Mirror", which introduced the series' concept of the Mirror Universe, also " ...more

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Average rating: 4.15 · 11,632 ratings · 1,040 reviews · 167 distinct works • Similar authors
It's a Good Life
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4.20 avg rating — 526 ratings — published 1953 — 4 editions
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The Man from Earth
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Zen
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The 18th Golden Age of Scie...
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The Draw
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The Holes Around Mars
3.43 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1954 — 26 editions
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Day of the Dove (Star Trek ...
3.78 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1978 — 2 editions
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The Slizzers
3.16 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions
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Where There's Hope
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Space by the Tale
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“..I was raised on the Torah, my wife on the Qu'Ran, my eldest son is an Atheist, my youngest is a scientologist, my daughter is studying Hinduism, I imagine there is room there for a holy war in my living room, but we practice live and let live.”
― Jerome Bixby The Man from Earth
tags: tolerance
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“Oh ... why not?' he smiled. "This valley is a pleasant spot for meditation. I like New England... it is here that I have experienced some of my greatest successes - and several notable defeats. Defeat, you know, is not such a bad thing, if there's not too much of it... it makes for humility, and humility makes for caution, therefore for safety.' ("Trace")”
― Jerome Bixby, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now
tags: caution, defeat, humility, safety
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“Mom looked out of the front window, across the darkened road, across Henderson's darkened wheatfield to the vast, endless, gray nothingness in which the little village of Peaksville floated like a soul-the huge nothingness that was evident at night, when Anthony's brassy day had gone.”
― Jerome Bixby, It's a Good Life
tags: eldritch-location, floating-world, the-twilight-zone
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September 2025 - Short Story/Novella Poll

 
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The Last Day in the Field from The Collected Stories of Caroline Gordon
 
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