Here is a great treat: Mike Hodel interviewing Arthur Byron Cover on Mike's famous radio show, Hour 25.
Sunday, December 28, 2014
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
FREE WATCH ALL 7 EPISODES STAR TREK TOS WRITER JEROME BIXBY WROTE FOR SHOW'S PREDECESSOR 'MEN INTO SPACE"
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ALL 7 EPISODES STAR TREK TOS WRITER JEROME BIXBY WROTE FOR STAR TREK'S PREDECESSOR "MEN INTO SPACE"
PRESENTED BY THE NEW JEROME BIXBY COLLECTION
"MIRROR, MIRROR: CLASSIC SF STORIES BY THE LEGENDARY STAR TREK AND FANTASTIC VOYAGE WRITER
THIS COLLECTION CONTAINS THREE OF HIS 1950s MAGAZINE STORIES HE LATER ADAPTED IN TO SCRIPTS FOR STAR TREK TOS
EDITED AND INTRODUCED BY HIS SON, SCREENWRITER EMERSON BIXBY
Buy for only $3.99 in Kindle at Amazon.
Below watch 7 episodes of the legendary 1960 science fiction television show Men into Space written by Jerome Bixby. Bixby is celebrated by Star Trek fans for his four scripts for the original series, Mirror, Mirror, By Any Other Name, Who Morns for Adonis?, and Day of the Dove. But six years earlier he had learned the craft of creating top-quality science fiction for television as a staff writer for Men into Space.
The episodes Jerome Bixby wrote for Men into Space showcase many of the qualities that would later make his Star Trek episodes among the best written for TOS. We hope you will enjoy watching them and that you will consider looking at Mirror, Mirror, a new collection of his science fiction stories from the golden age of the pulp magazines that features three stories he later used ideas and themes from in his Star Trek Scripts.
24 Is There Another Civilization? (story)
His first contribution to the series, a story outline. The script was written by someone else, but Bixby provided a strong and intriguing plot.
32 Mission to Mars (as Lewis Jay)
With his first script for the series, Jerome Bixby seems to have become the chief script writer, as he procuces all but one of the remainder of the season's teleplays.
33 Moon Trap (as Lewis Jay)
His skills as an early television writer, when tense dialogue was as important as action, show off well in this episode.
35 Into the Sun (as Lewis Jay)
Buy Star Trek Scripter Jerome Bixby's Mirror, Mirror in Kindle only $3.99.
Click here to see the final three episodes of Men into Space. Including the never aired on TV 38th episode. All three penned by Jerome Bixby.
Friday, December 12, 2014
DIGITAL PARCHMENT SERVICES Announces the Republication of William Charles Rotsler's PATRON OF THE ARTS
DIGITAL PARCHMENT SERVICES
Is Proud to Announce the Republication of William Charles Rotsler's Nebula, Hugo and Locus Award Finalist Saga
PATRON OF THE ARTS
For Immediate Release
Digital Parchment Services, through its Strange Particle Press science fiction imprint, and the estate of William Charles Rotsler are proud to announce the exclusive publication of an enhanced edition of Rotsler's 1974 novel Patron of the Arts ... based on his triple-award nominee fiction novelette of the same name.
Born in 1926, William Charles Rotsler was truly a renaissance man: acclaimed novelist and short story writer, photographer and filmmaker, much-admired artist and illustrator and – how he is perhaps best remembered – and as a warm and special part of science fiction fandom. Star Trek fans particularly owe Rotsler a debt for giving Lt. Uhura the first name of Nyota.
Rotsler had a hand in locating the fossils, crystals and stones for the Nebula Award trophies as well as receiving five Hugo awards for his cartoon work that appeared in fanzines, convention program books, and magazines such as Locus. To honor Rotsler, The Southern California Institute for Fan Interests created the William Rotsler Art Award in 1998. William Rotsler died in southern California in 1997.
"Patron of the Arts gives us a future where art is a major driver in the culture. He envisions new technologies that deepen our arts and alter how we see our world. Rotsler at the top of his form." –Gregory Benford
Brian Thorne was a billionaire. There were only two things he cared about: women and art. And because he could afford it, he paid the world's finest artist to combine the two, to make a work of art of the unforgettable, incomparable Madelon in the new and extraordinary artform: the sensatron. Then Madelon and the artist disappeared – through the sensatron. And all the money in the world could not help Brian Thorne. To solve the secret of the sensatron, he was strictly on his own...
That is how Brian Thorne, billionaire, found himself helpless—caught in a magnificent crystal creation that grew on Mars, and without any resources even if he could get away from the killers who trapped him there. For although they knew he was Brian Thorne, he couldn't prove it. To find Madelon and the sensatron, he had gone to considerable trouble to cover his tracks. Now he wished he had not been so thorough in turning his back on the luxury-lined and very well-guarded life he lived back on Earth. Now, when it was too late!
"A fine novel!" –Harlan Ellison
This new edition of Patron of the Arts features special bonus content – including a foreword by Nebula winner Gregory Benford, an afterword by Lambda finalist M.Christian, and a biographical sketch written by the author himself. The enhanced ebook version is available now – and a premier trade paperback edition will be coming in January, 2015.
Coming soon from Digital Parchment Services will be new releases of William Rotsler's novels To the Land of the Electric Angel, Zandra, The Hidden Worlds of Zandra, and Far Frontier, as well as a collection of Rotsler's short stories.
The Authorized William Charles Rotsler site
Introductory price: $2.99 – regularly $.5.99
ISBN: 9781615085828
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"Mirror, Mirror" New Jerome Bixby Collection Reaches Top 10 on Star Trek Bestseller List at Amazon Kindle
The famed Star Trek script writer's new collection of eleven stories from the pulp science fiction magazines, Mirror, Mirror, has reached the top 10 on the Star Trek bestseller list at Amazon Kindle and the top 50 among science fiction anthologies and collections.
Before he wrote four fan-favorite Star Trek episodes, and the screen story for the movie Fantastic Voyage, Jerome Bixby (1923-1998) was a highly regarded professional science fiction magazine editor. But Bixby deserted magazine editing for Hollywood. Bixby is best remembered for episodes he wrote for the original Star Trek television series, and is much revered by series fans for introducing, in "Mirror, Mirror," the concept of the "mirror universe" where The Federation and Kirk, Spock, et al, are all their evil exact opposites in character and deed.
Bixby also wrote three other episodes, "By Any Other Name," "Day of the Dove," and, "Requiem for Methuselah," which are ranked among the best in the series. The new collection contains a trio of rarely reprinted novelettes containing ideas that Bixby would later mine and transmogrify in two of his highly regarded Star Trek episodes. These stories are "One-Way Street" and "Mirror, Mirror" (both used in the ST script "Mirror, Mirror") and "Cargo to Callisto" (used in "By Any Other Name"). The collection also contains Bixby's most famous short story, "It's a Good Life," memorably dramatized first on The Twilight Zone, then in the Twilight Zone Movie, and finally reinterpreted for the twenty-first century on the series 2002 incarnation, in "It's Still a Good Life."
Friday, December 5, 2014
Starcom: The U.S. Space Force Cartoon from the 80's - written By Arthur Byron Cover!
(from Arthur Byron Cover's site)
Here's a special treat: an episode of the classic 80's science fiction cartoon show Starcom, written by Arthur Byron Cover!
Here's a special treat: an episode of the classic 80's science fiction cartoon show Starcom, written by Arthur Byron Cover!
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Mirror, Mirror Featured on Roddenberry Site
Digital Parchment Services is thrilled that the Roddenberry section of the SF news site, Nexus, has featured the release of our Jerome Bixby collection, Mirror, Mirror:
Jerome Bixby Stories Spotlighted In New Book
'Mirror, Mirror' collection features magazine tales that inspired 'Star Trek' episodes
Stories used by writer Jerome Bixby to create two "Star Trek: The Original Series" episodes are featured in a new book compiling his science fiction work.
Titled "Mirror, Mirror Classic SF by the Famed Star Trek and Fantastic Voyage Writer," the book from Digital Parchment Services includes the never-before-reprinted novelettes "One-Way Street," "Mirror, Mirror" and "Cargo to Callisto." Bixby molded the first two novelettes into a script for his famous 1967 Season 2 episode "Mirror, Mirror" -- which went on to earn a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation -- and the last for the 1968 Season 2 episode "By Any Other Name."
The book also contains Bixby's famous short story, "It's a Good Life," which was adapted for "The Twilight Zone" and 1983's "Twilight Zone: The Movie." Other stories include his first tale from 1949, "Tubemonkey," and "The God Plllnk," which was published in 1964.
Bixby, who was a highly regarded science fiction magazine editor and writer, also wrote the "Star Trek" episodes "Day of the Dove" and "Requiem for Methuselah." He enjoyed success beyond "Star Trek," however, having co-wrote the story for 1966's "Fantastic Voyage" and penning 1958's "It: The Terror from Beyond Space," which served as inspiration for Ridley Scott's classic sci-fi film "Alien."
Screenwriter and producer Emerson Bixby, Jerome's son, edited the book and wrote its introduction.
The book arrived in stores Nov. 18, and it costs $3.99 for the ebook edition and $9.99 for paperback.
Monday, December 1, 2014
DIGITAL PARCHMENT SERVICES Is Proud To Announce The Republication Of Arthur Byron Cover's Nebula Nominee Breakthrough Book AUTUMN ANGELS
Digital Parchment Services
Is Proud To Announce The Republication Of Arthur Byron Cover's Nebula Nominee Breakthrough Book
AUTUMN ANGELS
For Immediate Release
Digital Parchment Services, through
its Strange Particle Press science fiction imprint, and Arthur Byron Cover are
extremely thrilled to announce the publication of an enhanced edition of Cover's
Nebula-nominated intergalactic romp Autumn
Angels.
"Autumn Angels
is a feast of strangeness populated by extraordinarily exotic, and yet deeply
human characters. In part satire, in part thought experiment, Arthur Byron
Cover's book is an exploration of the meaning of humanity, and is filled with
enough wild images and witty dialogues to equal five books by a lesser writer.
A must read." –Steam
Dave, Amazon
This edition features introductions
by both A. A. Attanasio (author of Radix) and multiple Nebula and Hugo
Award winner, Harlan Ellison, as well as a very special Afterword about the writing
of the book by Cover.
Digital Parchment Services is
especially excited to be able to present this new edition with the stunning
cover painting by Ron Cobb, the internationally acknowledged artist and
illustrator who worked on films such as Star
Wars and Alien, from the original
edition.
The ebook edition of Autumn Angels is available now – with a
trade paperback edition premiering in January, 2015.
Coming soon, also from the
Digital Parchment Services, will be Arthur Byron Cover's An East Wind Coming, Platypus
Of Doom, The Sound Of Winter, and
a collection of Arthur Byron Cover's short stories.
"Three Godlike men (the lawyer,
the fatman and the demon) ... seek to give a godlike humanity depression, in an
attempt to make their race seek purpose and become the ultimate species in the
universe. What follows is ... a novel which plunges you into an original sci-fi
world which raises thought provoking questions throughout the plot ... fast
paced with engaging and unique characters ... thought provoking and emotive ...
Buy it now or I will send you to the antimatter universe."
–Adam Gent, Goodreads
The book that ushered in the 21st
century – in 1975! So far ahead of its time that no one knew what to make of it!
"…recommended to readers of
Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett."
–The PorPor Books Blog
Autumn Angels is a fast moving, anarchistic romp, filled with pop
culture references, in which the clichés and conventions of sci-fi are used as
slapstick props, written four years before Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy–
"It takes the materials of
everyday entertainments—pulp heroes, movies, comics, detective stories—and
transforms them ... into a gestalt that is fresh ... the lawyer is modeled
after Doc Savage's sidekick, 'Ham,' Brig. Gen. Theodore Marley Brooks; the fat
man is Sidney Greenstreet; the gunsel is Elisha Cook, Jr. in The Maltese
Falcon; the Big Red Cheese is Captain Marvel; the Insidious Oriental Doctor is
Fu Manchu; the Queen of England who calls herself a virgin is Elizabeth I; the
ace reporter is Lois Lane; the zanny imp from the Fifth Dimension is Mr. Mxyzptlk,
and both the imp and Lois are, of course, from the Superman comics; the godlike
man with no name is Clint Eastwood in the Sergio Leone-directed spaghetti
westerns; the galactic hero with two right arms is Harry Harrison's Bill, the
Galactic Hero; the fuzzy (but boring) little green balls of Sharkosh are Star
Trek scenarist David Gerrold's tribbles; and you can figure out for yourself
the true identities or esoteric references for The Ebony Kings, the poet, the
shrink, the bems, the other fat man and his witty leg man, and on and on."
–Harlan Ellison
No wonder Autumn Angels is a one-of-a-kind extravaganza, the author lists as
influences the Marx Brothers, Monty Python, Richard Lester, the silent comedians,
Woody Allen, Harry Harrison, Keith Laumer, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Dorothy
Parker, Hemingway, Jeeves and Wooster, Phil Dick, Robert Sheckley, and Alfred
Bester.
"...agile inventiveness ... extraordinary
salience and outlandishness ... astonishing imagination ... grotesque and
hilarious ... honest and often truly beautiful ... shocking and exultant ... nothing
like the usual SF fare. I read it through in one sitting."
–A. A. Attanasio, author, Radix
Read Autumn Angels now ... you'll be glad you did!
Cover: Ron Cobb
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ISBN: 9781615085811
Trade Paper, January,
2015
ISBN: 9781500695200
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