Kris Ottman Neville

Kris Ottman Neville (9 May 1925 – 23 December 1980) was an American science fiction writer from California.

He was born in St. Louis. His first science fiction work was published in 1949. His most famous work, the novella Bettyann, is considered an underground classic of science fiction.

Critical reception

Well known science fiction writer and critic, Barry N. Malzberg, wrote the following biographical note about Kris Neville in his introduction to Neville's story Ballenger's People in the 1979 Doubleday collection Neglected Visions:

Shortly after Neville's death in 1980, a remembrance by Malzberg was published in Locus Magazine, and later re-published in The Science Fiction of Kris Neville (Southern Illinois University Press, 1984.) It includes these additional observations:

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