Digital Parchment Services
Is Proud To Announce The Publication Of
MIRROR, MIRROR
Classic SF By The Famed Star Trek And
Fantastic Voyage Writer
NEW JEROME BIXBY COLLECTION
CONTAINS THREE SF MAGAZINE STORIES THAT
INSPIRED TELEPLAYS HE WROTE FOR THE ORIGINAL STAR TREK TV SERIES (1966-69)
For Immediate Release
"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 episodes
(receiving a nomination for the coveted Hugo Award for Best Dramatic
Presentation), and the screen story for the movie Fantastic Voyage, Jerome Bixby (1923-1998) was a highly regarded
professional science fiction magazine editor and writer remembered for his
"yeoman work in raising the standards of the science fiction action story
(…) whose own stories, though few, are much sought after by discriminating
readers." (Science Fiction Stories 1953)
Bixby soon deserted magazine editing for Hollywood,
where he wrote a number of low-budget, late-1950s monster movies including It: The Terror from Beyond Space (the
acknowledged inspiration for Alien),
and landed scripting chores on the documentaryesque early science fiction
television series, Men Into Space,
before striking it big when he sold Fantastic
Voyage to a studio.
Jerome Bixby is best remembered, however, for the
four episodes he wrote for the original Star
Trek television series, and is much revered by series fans for introducing,
in "Mirror, Mirror," the concept of the "mirror universe"
where The Federation and Kirk, Spock, et al, are all their evil exact opposites
in character and deed.
Bixby also wrote three other episodes, "By Any
Other Name," "Day of the Dove," and, "Requiem for
Methuselah," all of which critics and fans rank among the best in the
series.
Fans of all types will thrill to learn that this
first-ever collection focusing on Jerome Bixby's science fiction will showcase
a trior of never-before-reprinted novelettes containing ideas that Bixby would
later mine and transmogrify in two of his highly regarded Star Trek episodes, "One-Way Street" and "Mirror,
Mirror" (both used in the ST script "Mirror, Mirror") and
"Cargo to Callisto" (used in "By Any Other Name").
The collection will also contain Bixby's most famous
short story, "It's a Good Life," memorably dramatized first on The Twilight Zone, then in the Twilight Zone Movie, and finally
reinterpreted for the twenty-first century on the series 2002-3 incarnation, in
"It's Still a Good Life."
Other Bixby classics include his first SF story for
a pulp magazine, "Tubemonkey" (1949), and his very last, "The
God Plllnk" (1964). You will also find a half-dozen other "lost"
stories and novelettes reprinted for the first time since their original
magazine publication in the 1950 and '60s.
Mirror, Mirror was edited and features a long
personal Introduction by his son, screenwriter and producer, Emerson Bixby.
To be released in both trade paperback and as an
ebook, "Mirror, Mirror Classic SF by the Famed Star
Trek and Fantastic Voyage Writer" is a collection with something for everyone;
it's for fans of pulp magazines, for fans of good science fiction writing, and
for every fan who has ever journeyed along the space lanes with Kirk, Spock and
McCoy.
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