{"id":38198,"date":"2014-12-04T09:20:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T17:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=38198"},"modified":"2014-12-04T09:20:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T17:20:06","slug":"new-bixby-mirror-mirror-ebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2014\/12\/new-bixby-mirror-mirror-ebook\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bixby Mirror Mirror EBook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38201\" alt=\"MirrorMirrorBixby120414\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/MirrorMirrorBixby120414.gif\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A new eBook from <strong>Jerome Bixby<\/strong> has been released and two of the stories in it will be of special interest to <em>Star Trek<\/em> fans.<\/p>\n<p>Bixby wrote the <em>Mirror, Mirror; By Any Other Name, Day of the Dove<\/em>, and <em>Requiem for Methuselah<\/em> original series episodes.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The new eBook, <em>Mirror, Mirror Classic SF by the Famed Star Trek and Fantastic Voyage Writer<\/em>, showcase[s] a trio of never-before-reprinted novelettes containing ideas that Bixby would later mine and transmogrify in two of his highly regarded <em>Star Trek<\/em> episodes, <em>One-Way Street<\/em> and <em>Mirror, Mirror<\/em> (both used in the ST script <em>Mirror, Mirror<\/em>) and <em>Cargo to Callisto<\/em> (used in <em>By Any Other Name<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>The third story was also made into a sci-fi classic, <em>The Twilight Zone<\/em>&#8216;s <em>It&#8217;s a Good Life<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Other stories in <em>Mirror, Mirror<\/em> include Bixby&#8217;s &#8220;first SF story for a pulp magazine, <em>Tubemonkey<\/em> (1949), and his very last, <em>The God Plllnk<\/em> (1964). You will also find a half-dozen other &#8216;lost&#8217; stories and novelettes reprinted for the first time since their original magazine publication in the 1950 and &#8217;60s.&#8221; These include<em> Ev, Sort of Like a Flower, The Slizzers, One Way Street, For Little George, Little Boy, Our Town, The Bad Life<\/em>, and <em>Natural History of the Kley<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Currently available in a <em>Kindle<\/em> Edition for $3.99, <em>Mirror, Mirror Classic SF by the Famed Star Trek and Fantastic Voyage Writer<\/em> will also be released as a trade paperback. To order the <em>Kindle<\/em> version, head to the link located <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00PUKJ5TC\/ref=cm_sw_su_dp\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new eBook from Jerome Bixby has been released and two of the stories in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2456],"tags":[8090,6410,3615],"class_list":["post-38198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-bixby","tag-ebook","tag-mirror-mirror"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/books\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Books<\/a>","tag_info":"Books","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38204,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38198\/revisions\/38204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}