| The Holes Around Mars by Jerome Bixby, Science Fiction, Adventure Contributor(s): Bixby, Jerome (Author) |
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ISBN: 1463896107 ISBN-13: 9781463896102 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Science Fiction - Action & Adventure - Fiction | Fantasy - Epic |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.25" H x 6" W x 9" (0.48 lbs) 30 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Allenby, in command of the Mars I, was first to set foot outside the ship. He took his "one small step for man" -- and found himself staring at the rock in front of him. It was about five feet high. Ordinary granite -- no special shape -- and several inches below its summit, running straight through it in a northeasterly direction, was a neatly round four-inch hole. He made a pun and grunted. "Well, I'll be," said Janus, our photographer. "A hole." "In a rock," added Gonzales, our botanist. "Round," said Randolph, our biologist. "An artifact," finished Allenby softly. Before we were done we'd found similar holes all over the surface of the planet. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bixby, Jerome: - "Drexel Jerome Lewis Bixby (1923 - 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 sci-fi movie Fantastic Voyage (1966), television series, and novel by Isaac Asimov were based. Bixby's final work was the screenplay for the 2007 sci-fi 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)." |