Kris Neville

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Kris Ottman Neville (born May 9, 1925 in Carthage , Missouri ; died December 23, 1980 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American science fiction writer.

Life

Neville's parents were Gilbert Ottman Neville and Ethyl Mae Neville, née Peters. Neville served in the United States Army Signal Corps during World War II . After the war, he studied at the University of California, Los Angeles , where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in English in 1950 . In 1957 he married Lil Johnson, who brought three children into the marriage and with whom he had two more children. He worked as a technical writer for various companies in the plastics and chemical industries, including the Conveyor Company , Rocketdyne and from 1955 to 1966 at Epoxylite in Anaheim , California. In the following years he worked part-time at Epoxylite and wrote a number of specialist books on epoxy resins and the medical use of plastics, particularly in dentistry , and was editor of a manual on insulation for industrial engines.

He published his first science fiction story, The Hand from the Stars , in Super Science Stories in 1949 . His best known work is Bettyann , about an alien orphan left behind on earth. Bettyann initially considers herself human, but feels alien and eventually discovers her unusual abilities ( shape change , telepathy ) and her true nature. When visitors from her world come to earth and want to take them to their home planet, she decides to stay on earth. The 1970 novel is a fix-up of two previously published short stories. In 1973 Bettyann's Children followed . Donald L. Law described Bettyann as "one of those rare SF stories that could not have been told in any other genre, yet deeply engages with universal human values." Neville's last novel, Run, The Spearmaker , which he co-wrote with his Frau wrote, is about an early human tribe at the beginning of the last ice age and has only appeared in Japanese translation. Another novel, Thorstein Macaulay , also in collaboration with Lil Neville, on which the couple had worked for 10 years, remained unpublished.

In 1975 Neville received the Forry Award for Lifetime Achievement .

bibliography

Bettyann (short shift series)
  • 1 Bettyann (1951)
  • 2 Overture (1954)
  • Bettyann (1970, fix-up novel)
    • German: Bettyann - the girl from another planet. Moewig (Terra Astra # 9), 1971.
  • 3 Bettyann's Children (1973)
Novels
  • The Unearth People (1964)
  • The Mutants (1966)
    • English: Beyond the lunar orbit. Goldmann's Space Paperback # 160, 1973.
  • Invaders on the Moon (1970, with Mel Sturgis)
    • English: Invaders on the Moon. Moewig (Terra Astra # 21), 1972.
  • Run, The Spearmaker (1975, with Lil Neville, only published in Japanese translation as 槍 作 り の ラ ン )
Collections
  • Mission: Manstop (1971)
    • German: Experimental-Station. Goldmann's Space Paperback # 155, 1973.
  • The Science Fiction of Kris Neville (1984)
  • Earth Alert !: And Other Science Fiction Tales (2010)
  • The 33rd Golden Age of Science Fiction Megapack (2016)
Short stories
  • The Hand from the Stars (1949)
  • Cold War (1949)
    • German: Cold War. In: Utopia Science Fiction Magazine # 9. Pabel, 1957.
  • Dumb Supper (1950, as Henderson Strong)
  • Experimental Station (1950)
  • Sam and the Live and the Not-Alive Things (1950)
  • Every Work Into Judgment (1950)
  • Satellite Secret (1950)
  • If This Be Utopia ... (1950)
  • Forbidden Fruit (1950)
  • One Leg Is Enough (1950)
  • The First (1950)
    • German: The beginning. In: Walter Ernsting (Ed.): Utopia Science Fiction Magazin, # 5. Pabel, 1956.
  • Wind in Her Hair (1950)
  • Take Two Quiggies (1950)
  • Seeds of Futurity (1951)
  • Franchise (1951)
  • Casting Office (1951, as Henderson Starke)
  • Hunt the Hunter (1951)
  • Old Man Henderson (1951)
  • Yes and No (1951)
  • Hold Back Tomorrow (1951)
  • The Last Wobbly (1952)
  • Special Delivery (1952)
    • English: Deadly cargo from space. Moewig (Terra # 506), 1967.
  • Fresh Air Fiend (1952)
  • The Opal Necklace (1952)
  • Underground Movement (1952)
  • The Toy (1952)
  • As Holy and Enchanted (1953, as Henderson Starke)
  • Gratitude Guaranteed (1953, with Reginald Bretnor)
  • Mission: Manstop (1953)
  • Peril of the Starmen (1953)
  • The Man with the Fine Mind (1953)
  • Earth Alert! (1953)
    • German: Deadly Radiation. Moewig (Terra # 492), 1966.
  • Mission (1953)
  • She Knew He Was Coming (1953)
  • It Pays to Advertise (1953)
  • Marginal Error (1953)
  • Dust Thou Art ... (1953)
  • Worship Night (1953)
  • Going Home (1954)
  • Experiment Station (1955)
  • Morale Equivalent (1957)
  • In the Beginning (1957)
  • Closing Time (1961)
    • German: At the end of time. In: Walter Ernsting (Ed.): Robots on the war path. Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3035), 1964.
  • Power in the Blood (1962)
  • The Winning of the Moon (1962)
  • Too Many Eggs (1962, as Kris Melville)
  • General Max Shorter (1962)
  • Voyage to Far N'jurd (1963)
  • New Apples in the Garden (1963)
  • Shamar's War (1964)
    • German: The Demagogue. In: Science-Fiction-Stories 44. Ullstein 2000 # 83 (3102), 1975, ISBN 3-548-03102-1 .
  • The Outcasts (1964)
  • The Price of Simeryl (1966)
  • From the Government Printing Office (1967)
    • German: Programmed Education. In: Harlan Ellison (ed.): 15 Science Fiction Stories II. Heyne (Heyne Anthologies # 34), 1970.
  • The Night of the Nickel Beer (1967)
  • Ballenger's People (1967)
    • German: Emergency. In: Science-Fiction-Stories 62. Ullstein 2000 # 119 (3265), 1976, ISBN 3-548-03265-6 .
  • The Forest of Zil (1967)
  • Jeweled City (1968)
  • Thyre Planet (1968)
  • Pacem Est (1970, with Barry N. Malzberg)
  • The Reality Machine (1970)
  • Dominant Species (1971)
  • Pater Familias (1972, with Barry N. Malzberg)
  • Medical Practices Among the Immortals (1972)
  • Human Error (1973, with Barry N. Malzberg)
  • The Quality of the Product (1973, with Lil Neville)
  • Survival Problems (1974)
  • The Man Who Read Equations (1974, with Lil Neville)
  • Arleen (1976, with Lil Neville)
  • Milk into Brandy (1976, with Lil Neville)
  • Another Creator (1981)
  • The Bull Fights (1983)
  • Object D'Art (1984)
Non-fiction
  • Epoxy Resins (1957, with Henry Lee)
  • Handbook of Epoxy Resins (1967, with Henry Lee)
  • New Linear Polymers (1967, with Henry Lee)
  • Handbook of Biomedical Plastics (1971, with Henry Lee)
  • Adhesive Restorative Dentistry (1974, with Robert L. Ibsen)
  • Industrial Motor Users' Handbook of Insulation for Rewinds (1977, with LJ Regda)
  • Charles V. Cagle: Handbook of Adhesive Bonding (1982, editor with Henry Lee)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Donald L. Lawler: Neville, Kris (Ottman) . In: Noelle Watson, Paul E. Schellinger: Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. St. James Press, Chicago 1991, ISBN 1-55862-111-3 , p. 591.
personal data
SURNAME Neville, Kris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neville, Kris Ottman (full name); Strong, Henderson (pseudonym); Melville, Kris (pseudonym); Nevil, Kris (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Carthage , Missouri
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1980
Place of death Los Angeles , California