Jerome Bixby

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Drexel Jerome Lewis Bixby (January 11, 1923 – April 28, 1998) was a United States science fiction author and editor. He also used the pseudonyms D.B. Lewis, Harry Neal, Albert Russell, J. Russell, M. St. Vivant, Thornecliff Herrick and Alger Rome.

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

Probably his most well known work today is the Star Trek episode "Mirror, Mirror" and the short story "It's a Good Life," adapted as a teleplay for the Twilight Zone by Rod Serling and revisited several times by that franchise. He also conceived and co-wrote the 1966 film "Fantastic Voyage", later novellized by Isaac Asimov.

Jerome Bixby last great work, a screenplay titled "The Man From Earth", was conceived back in the early 1960's and was completed on his death bed in April of 1998. In 2007, "Jerome Bixby's The Man From Earth" (as it is now called) was turned into an independent motion picture executive produced by his son Emerson Bixby, directed by Richard Schenkman and starring David Lee Smith, William Katt, Richard Riehle, Tony Todd, Annika Peterson, Alexis Thorpe, Ellen Crawford and John Billingsley.

The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine seventh season episode The Emperor's New Cloak is dedicated to Bixby's memory.

Contents 1 Trivia 2 Bibliography 2.1 Collections 2.2 Short fiction 2.3 Esays/articles

[edit] Trivia

• He was survived by three sons (Jan Emerson Bixby, Leonardo Brook Bixby, and Russell Albert Ludwig Bixby) and four grandchildren (Leonardo's son Wesley David Bixby, Jan's sons Brian Exavier and Michael Khan Bixby, and Russell's daughter Tanith Lin Murphy-Bixby).
• He once stated that nobody could ever solve a Rubik's Cube without the assistance of a book. His son Russell proved this to be incorrect, and they both soon became very accomplished at solving them.
• He liked lateral thinking puzzles, and owned many books full of them.
• His ashes were cast into the ocean a year after his death.

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Collections

• Devil's Scrapbook (1964)
• Space by the Tale (1964)
• Call for an Exorcist (1974)

[edit] Short fiction

• A Doll, A Gypsy Curse and Murder (unknown)
• Nightride and Sunrise (unknown)
• The Sin Wager (unknown)
• The Spell of the Witch Wife (unknown)
• Tubemonkey (1949)
• Cargo to Callisto (1950)[as Jay B. Drexel]
• The Crowded Colony (1950)[as Jay B. Drexel]
• Vengeance on Mars (1951)[as D. B. Lewis]
• Angels in the Jets (1952)
• Ev (1952) with Raymond Z. Gallun
• Page and Player (1952)
• Sort of Like a Flower (1952)
• Zen (1952)
• Page and Player (1952)[as Harry Neal]
• Can Such Beauty Be? (1953)
• It's a Good Life (1953)
• The Monsters (1953)
• One Way Street (1953)
• Share Alike (1953) with Joe E. Dean
• Where There's Hope (1953)
• The Battle of the Bells (1954)
• The Draw (1954)
• The Good Dog (1954)
• Halfway to Hell (1954)
• The Holes Around Mars (1954)
• Mirror, Mirror (1954)
• Small War (1954)
• The Young One (1954)
• Little Boy (1954)[as Harry Neal]
• Laboratory (1955)
• Our Town (1955)
• Nightride and Sunrise (1957) with James Blish
• Trace (1961)
• The Bad Life (1963)
• The God-Pllnk (1963)
• The Magic Typewriter (1963)
• The Best Lover in Hell (1964)
• The Demon and the Well-Heeled Satyr (1964)
• The Dirtiest Story in Hell (1964)
• A Doll, a Gypsy Curse and Murder (1964)
• Guardian (1964)
• Heavenly Nymph on Hell's Island (1964)
• Jungle Sin (1964)
• Kiss of Blood (1964)
• The Last Wish (1964)
• The Love Jug (1964)
• Lust in Stone (1964)
• The Marquis' Magic Potion (1964)
• The Mortal and the Goddess (1964)
• Natural History of the Kley (1964)
• Old Testament (1964)
• The Oldest Story in Hell (1964)
• The Saddest Story in Hell (1964)
• The Shangri-La Caper (1964)
• Sin Wager (1964)
• Spell of the Witch Wife (1964)
• The Strange Habits of Robert Prey (1964)
• Tabu Cave Goddess (1964)
• The Magic Potion (1976)

[edit] Esays/articles

• Introducing the Author (1954)
• Memoir (1980)