Peterson, John Victor
Entry updated 13 January 2025. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Martyrs Don't Mind Dying" in Astounding for January 1938, producing competent Genre SF for various contemporary SF Magazines until 1959. With Allen Ingvald Benson he published "Atmospherics" (September 1939 Astounding) under the joint pseudonym Victor Valding. In his one full-length novel, Rock the Big Rock (1970), a chthonic Underground figure from humanity's past broaches into a Near Future world which has been decimated by a Disaster capable of ending life entirely. [JC]
John Victor Peterson
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works
- Rock the Big Rock (New York: Curtis Books, 1970) [pb/]
stories
- Lost in the Future (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2009) [story: ebook: first appeared January 1954 Fantastic Universe: na/]
- The Psilent Partner (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) with Edward S Staub [story: ebook: first appeared March 1954 Fantastic Universe: na/]
- Political Application (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) [story: ebook: first appeared September 1956 Fantastic Universe: na/]
- The Lightning's Course (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2021) [story: ebook: first appeared January 1941 Comet: na/]
- Lie on the Beam (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2021) [story: ebook: first appeared March 1941 Comet: na/]
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