Jerome Bixby
Drexel Jerome Lewis Bixby (January 11, 1923 – April 28, 1998) was an American short story writer and scriptwriter. He wrote the 1953 story "It's a Good Life" which was the basis for a 1961 episode of The Twilight Zone and which was included in Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983). He also wrote four episodes for the Star Trek series: "Mirror, Mirror", "Day of the Dove", "Requiem for Methuselah", and "By Any Other Name". With Otto Klement, he co-wrote the story upon which the science fiction movie Fantastic Voyage (1966), television series, and novel by Isaac Asimov were based. Bixby's final produced or published work so far was the screenplay for the 2007 science fiction film The Man from Earth. He also wrote many westerns and used the pseudonyms Jay Lewis Bixby, D. B. Lewis, Harry Neal, Albert Russell, J. Russell, M. St. Vivant, Thornecliff Herrick and Alger Rome (for one collaboration with Algis Budrys).
Read more from Jerome Bixby
The Holes Around Mars Six Stories by Jerome Bixby Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhere There's Hope Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Holes Around Mars Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Slizzers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlack Cat Weekly #131 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Draw Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Holes Around Mars Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsZen Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Draw Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to The Slizzers
Related ebooks
The Slizzers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Faking It Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUnprotected Sax Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Dark Side of Paradise Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Zombie Prescription Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Lights in Vegas Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAngel Hamilton, Private Angel: Lonely Hearts Vampire Club Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBest New Zombie Tales (Vol. 1) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Hired Man Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Cloned Identity Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings5 Daggers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMannox: GAY4PAY Vol. 3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsExplain That to a Martian 2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStalked Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRoughshod Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Dish Served Cold Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Memory Project: A Sci-Fi Mystery Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Kat Trio 1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCassie 2.0B: Ghost Hunters Mystery Parables Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGypsies, Interviews, and Thieves: A Collection of Short Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Rain Sad Day: A Tale of the Sportsmens' Club Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLoving a Straight Boy Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Stand Up Johnny Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDeep in the Mojo Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsReap What You Sow Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5One Thought, Then Gone: Short Fiction Young Adult Science Fiction Fantasy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDark Eyes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBetween Walls: The City Between, #6 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Finding Floofy: Finding Floofy, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Reviews for The Slizzers
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
The Slizzers - Jerome Bixby
The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Slizzers, by Jerome Bixby
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
Title: The Slizzers
Author: Jerome Bixby
Release Date: October 10, 2010 [EBook #33850]
Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SLIZZERS ***
Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Transcriber's Note:
This etext was produced Science Fiction Stories 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
The main trouble is that you'd never suspect anything was wrong;
you'd enjoy associating with slizzers, so long as you didn't know....
The Slizzers
by JEROME BIXBY
hey're all around us. I'll call them the slizzers, because they sliz people. Lord only knows how long they've been on Earth, and how many of them there are....
They're all around us, living with us. We are hardly ever aware of their existence, because they can make themselves look like us, and do most of the time; and if they can look like us, there's really no need for them to think like us, is there? People think and behave in so many cockeyed ways, anyhow. Whenever a slizzer fumbles a little in his impersonation of a human being, and comes up with a puzzling response, I suppose we just shrug and think. He could use a good psychiatrist.