Peyton, Roger
Entry updated 27 September 2026. Tagged: Author, Fan, Publisher.
(1942- ) UK fan, genre book dealer and publisher, active in Fandom from 1961 when he co-founded the Birmingham SF Group (1961-1966; relaunched 1971 and still current); usually known in fandom as Rog Peyton. In the 1960s he edited 14 issues of the British Science Fiction Association's flagship publication Vector (May 1964 to April 1966) and published two slim Bibliographies, covering the UK Science Fiction Adventures in A Checklist of "Science Fiction Adventures" (1964 chap) and Poul Anderson in A Checklist of Poul Anderson (1965 chap). His Birmingham-based Andromeda Bookshop, co-founded with Rod Milner in 1971 and continuing at various venues to 2002, was a major sf outlet with dealer tables at very many UK Conventions; he subsequently operated an online/mail-order service as Replay Books.
In the mid-1980s Peyton and Rod Milner selected sf titles for the UK Hamlyn "Venture SF" paperback imprint; these were chiefly Space Opera, with a particular emphasis on Philip E High. His idiosyncratic Small Press Drunken Dragon Press was to have launched in 1983 with a chapbook collection by Lisa Tuttle, «The Other Book», which was cancelled for financial reasons. Drunken Dragon actually operated from 1988 to 1990, publishing work by Eric Brown, Storm Constantine, David Langford and Ian McDonald. [DRL]
further awards or honours: Doc Weir Award; Eastercon; Novacon.
Roger G Peyton
born 1942
works
nonfiction
- A Checklist of "Science Fiction Adventures" (place not given: Fantazm, 1964) as Roger G Peyton [bibliography: chap: Science Fiction Adventures: pb/Mik]
- A Checklist of Poul Anderson (Quinton, Birmingham: Roger G Peyton, 1965) as Roger G Peyton [bibliography: chap: Poul Anderson: pb/nonpictorial]
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