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Jerome Bixby


It's a Good Life

It's a Good Life

Jerome Bixby

What is more idyllic than a small Midwestern agricultural town? Peaksville would sound like a scene right out of a Norman Rockwell painting, except little Anthony is a monster! What happens when a child is omnipotent, and with his mind he can execute his every desire and petulant whim? Tonight, there's a birthday party for Dan Hollis at Anthony's house. It's a party all the townspeople will remember... always!

Voted as one of the greatest stories by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, the story was also adapted into a classic Twilight Zone episode.

This short story originally appeared in Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2. It has been collected and anthologized many times.

It was the basis for episode 73 (1961) of The Twilight Zone.

One Way Street and Other Stories

One Way Street and Other Stories

Armchair Fiction - Masters of Science Fiction: Book 2

Jerome Bixby

Contents:

  • 5 - Small War - (1954) - shortstory
  • 20 - Laboratory - (1955) - shortstory
  • 45 - Can Such Beauty Be? - (1953) - shortstory
  • 62 - The Holes Around Mars - (1954) - shortstory
  • 83 - Where There's Hope - (1953) - shortstory
  • 91 - —And All for One - (1950) - shortstory
  • 107 - The Good Dog - (1954) - shortstory
  • 115 - Nightride and Sunrise - (1952) - novelette by Jerome Bixby and James Blish [as by Jerome Bixby]
  • 145 - The Second Ship - (1952) - shortstory
  • 152 - The Bad Life - (1963) - novelette
  • 190 - Zen - (1952) - shortstory
  • 200 - Mirror, Mirror - (1954) - shortstory
  • 212 - Halfway to Hell - (1954) - novelette
  • 240 - Angels in the Jets - (1952) - shortstory
  • 256 - The Battle of the Bells - (1954) - shortstory
  • 274 - One Way Street - (1953) - shortstory
  • 299 - The Slizzers - (1953) - shortstory
  • 310 - The Monsters - (1953) - shortstory

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