It would not be an exaggeration to say that Jerome Bixby’s work traced the contours of my childhood. I remember vividly the day I first read It’s a Good Life, a story which can give me shivers to this day.
I also vividly remember watching the Star Trek episode Mirror Mirror, and wondering why it was so much better than the other episodes. And then, years later, stumbling upon The Man from Earth, so deceptively simple, yet profound.
Eventually I realized that these were all written by the same person.
Jerome Bixby would have turned 100 today. Let’s hear it for him, wherever he may be in the multiverse.