 His first-written novel, "Hunger and Thirst", was ignored by publishers for several decades before eventually being published in 2010, but his short story "Born of Man and Woman" was published in "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction", Summer 1950, the new quarterly's third issue and attracted attention.It is the tale of a monstrous child chained by its parents in the cellar, cast as the creature's diary in poignantly non-idiomatic English.Later that year he placed stories in the first and third numbers of "Galaxy Science Fiction", a new monthly.