{"id":14,"date":"2018-02-24T16:25:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T16:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manfromearth.com\/mfe\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2018-10-02T18:52:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T17:52:53","slug":"author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manfromearth.com\/mfe\/author\/","title":{"rendered":"AUTHOR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manfromearth.com\/mfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/jeromebix-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manfromearth.com\/mfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/jeromebix-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manfromearth.com\/mfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/jeromebix.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: 'Oswald', sans-serif; font-size: 19px;\"><strong>Jerome Bixby<\/strong> In his life, Jerome Bixby created some of the most memorable moments of contemporary science fiction&#8230; including &#8220;It&#8217;s a Good Life&#8221;, for <strong>The Twilight Zone<\/strong>; &#8220;Mirror, Mirror\u201c, \u201cDay of the Dove\u201d and \u201cRequiem for Methuselah&#8221; for the original series <strong>Star Trek<\/strong>; and the classic motion picture, &#8220;Fantastic Voyage&#8221;. Jerome first conceived the story for Man From Earth back in the early 1960&#8217;s. It would come to be his last great work, finally completing it on his deathbed, in April of 1998. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In his long career, Jerome Bixby authored numerous science fiction stories, including the novel DAY OF THE DOVE and episodes of the original Star Trek and Twilight Zone television series. Bixby\u2019s stories appeared in the publications Galaxy, If, Startling Stories, Thrilling Wonder Stories and Worlds of Tomorrow. Jerome Bixby is considered one of Star Trek\u2019s \u201ctop drawer\u201d writers. Among Bixby\u2019s Star Trek episodes are \u201cMirror, Mirror\u201d (consistently voted one of the 10 best) which first established the concept of the mirror-universe, and \u201cRequiem for Methuselah\u201d, a captivating story about Kirk, Spock and McCoy encountering a near-immortal who claims to have lived the lives of Brahms and Da Vinci, among others. This was the first time Bixby dealt with the themes he more fully explored in \u201cThe Man From Earth\u201d. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manfromearth.com\/mfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Jerome_Bixby-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manfromearth.com\/mfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Jerome_Bixby-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/manfromearth.com\/mfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Jerome_Bixby.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/>Bixby\u2019s work on the television series The Twilight Zone includes the fan-favorite classic episode \u201cIt\u2019s a Good Life\u201d, which was chosen as one of the \u201cGreatest science fiction stories of all time\u201d by the membership of The Science Fiction Writers of America. \u201cIt\u2019s a Good Life\u201d is one of 26 works that \u201crepresent the best, most important, and most influential stories and authors in the field\u201d. \u201cIt\u2019s a Good Life\u201d was one of five stories chosen for inclusion in Twilight Zone: The Movie and was directed by Joe Dante (Gremlins, Small Soldiers). <\/p>\n<p>Jerome Bixby is held in the same regard as other famous sci-fi writers as Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury and Robert A. Heinlein.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMan from Earth\u201d was Bixby\u2019s last great work. In 2008 Richard Schenkman adapted it for theatrical productions. Since being translated into over fourteen languages there have been major productions mounted in Athens, Barcelona, Edinburg, Germany, Jerusalem and Saint Thomas,<br \/>\nwith its largest production to date to be mounted this year in Seoul, Korea.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerome Bixby In his life, Jerome Bixby created some of the most memorable moments of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manfromearth.com\/mfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manfromearth.com\/mfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manfromearth.com\/mfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manfromearth.com\/mfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manfromearth.com\/mfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":62,"href":"https:\/\/manfromearth.com\/mfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3578,"href":"https:\/\/manfromearth.com\/mfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/3578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manfromearth.com\/mfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}