"It's a Good Life" Rating: Five Planets

by Jerome Bixby

  
pub. 1953  
collected in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. I  
   
   
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An entire town lives in terror of a three-year-old child with a mind of limitless power.

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Atom BulletThis story has been televised twice as episodes of The Twilight Zone.

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Atom BulletCompare this story to "Born of Man and Woman" by Richard Matheson and "The Country of the Kind" by Damon Knight.

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