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US author – mostly of fiction – who worked for many years as a technical writer specializing in plastics technology, and through his connection with the Epoxylite Corporation co-authored several texts on epoxy resins. He began publishing sf with "The Hand from the Stars" (July 1949 Super Science Stories),and for several years was a prolific contributor to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and other magazines; he wrote some fantasy as by Henderson Starke. His short fiction was assembled in Mission: Manstop (coll with some stories updated 1971),and in the posthumous The Science Fiction of Kris Neville (coll 1984) edited by Barry N Malzberg and Martin H Greenberg, which was supplemented (but not replaced) by Earth Alert! and Other Science Fiction Tales (coll 2010). This material consistently demonstrated his notable technical strengths as a writer: concision, clarity of style, an ability to develop the sometimes routine initial material of a story so that its implications expanded constantly, rather in the manner mastered, with more recognition than Neville ever received, by James Tiptree Jr. "Hunt the Hunter" (June 1951 Galaxy),for instance, begins as a simple hunt on an Alien planet but expands subtly but quickly into a study in power politics whose trick ending very neatly turns the meaning of the whole tale in upon itself. Another early story, "The Toy" (December 1952 Imagination),powerfully structures a very sharp lesson in Anthropology within an apparently routine tale about humans oppressing "inferior" aliens. One of his very few late stories, "Ballenger's People" (April 1967 Galaxy),counts as sf only through its moderately futuristic form of urban transport; the tale itself describes, with superb concision, the complex internal politics of a deranged mind.