 Nowadays a short-short story shows up once a year or so in a magazine or original anthology; sometimes written in collaboration with his second wife, Lil, and always so astonishingly above the run of material surrounding it as to constitute an embarrassment to the other writers.Neville, whom I do not claim to know well at all but with whom I did correspond prolifically some years ago, may be among the most intelligent of science fiction writers (only A. J. Budrys seems to have his eclecticism and his breadth) and strikes me as among the few contented people I have ever known.... Neville has done some extraordinary political satire – "The Price of Simeryl", published way back in 1966, is an early, savage anti-Vietnam piece – and in work like "New Apples in the Garden" manifests an extraordinary range of subject and character.