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Revision as of 14:21, 23 February 2007
GENERAL
“It’s A Good Life” is a short story by Jerome Bixby. Written in 1953, it was first published in 1953, it the book “Star Science Fiction Stories No.2”. This story also appears in “The Science Fiction Hall of Fame”. It is a collection of the greatest science fiction stories of all time as voted by the Members of the Science Fiction Writers of America.
PLOT SUMMARY
SETTING
Peaksville, Ohio
- Population: 46
- Surrounded by a “vast, endless, gray nothingness… floating like a soul”
- No one knows whether or not Anthony had taken it someplace else, or had destroyed the world around them, leaving only the village
- Evidence in the story (the word sun is in quotations) suggests that they are not on Earth at all, but floating in space
MAJOR CHARACTERS
Anthony Fremont
- The main character of the story
- He is three years old
- Depicted as casting an “odd shadow” and has a “purple gaze”
- Has near-omnipotent powers which allow him to manipulate objects, people and animals around him through telekinesis
