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John Victor Peterson

Nationality
American
Active
1941 – 1958
Works held
9

John Victor Peterson published science fiction from 1938, beginning with ‘Martyrs Don’t Mind Dying’ in Astounding, and turned out competent genre stories for the magazines until about 1959. His one novel, Rock the Big Rock (1970), came later. Little is recorded of his life beyond the bibliography, which places him squarely among the reliable second-tier hands of Campbell’s Astounding.

The works

  1. 1958
    Cover of The oddly elusive brunette The oddly elusive brunette
  2. 1957
    Cover of Second census Second census Cover of The Gently Orbiting Blonde The Gently Orbiting Blonde
  3. 1956
    Cover of Political Application Political Application
  4. 1954
    Cover of Classified object Classified object Cover of Lost in the Future Lost in the Future Cover of The Psilent Partner The Psilent Partner
  5. 1941
    Cover of Lie on the Beam Lie on the Beam Cover of The Lightning's Course The Lightning's Course

Wrote across

1940s1950s

Recurring themes

Social SFFirst ContactSpace OperaPsychic PowersHard SFTime TravelArtificial IntelligenceMilitary SF

Kindred authors shared themes

Charles L. FontenayJim HarmonLester Del ReyNoel M. LoomisRandall GarrettRobert SilverbergStephen MarloweAlan Edward Nourse

Contemporaries writing in the same era

George O. SmithStephen MarloweRandall GarrettNelson S. BondBryce WaltonRobert SilverbergMurray LeinsterH. Beam PiperAlan Edward NourseAlfred Coppel

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