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Fred Pohl published my short story “The Accomplice” in the April 1967 issue of If. It was only my third story to appear in print. Wolgang Jeschke included a German translation of the story in his collection, Science Fiction Story-Reader 16. Its only other appearances were in two program books. So “The Accomplice” is among my least-reprinted stories. Why is that?
The quality of the writing is about average for what I could manage in the 1960s. The hero’s background is probably more intriguing than in my earlier stories. And the ideas? Ah, there’s the problem. To date, “The Accomplice” is the most irritating combination of embarrassing gaffes and neat insights that I have ever created. More than once, I have held it back from reprint collections.
Darrell Schweitzer wrote a marvelously kind and generous piece about the things I got right in “The Accomplice” (The New York Review of Science Fiction, April 1996, pp.14–15). As with a lot of SF stories, if you are allowed to pick the good calls, it can look deeply prophetic.

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