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Green Peyton
1907–1968
An early science-fiction writer with a journalist’s eye, he helped shape the genre in its first magazine era. His stories mixed big speculative ideas with a crisp, adventurous style that still feels lively today.
2 Audiobooks
The Chamber of Life
by Green Peyton
The Coming of the Ice
by Green Peyton
About the author
Born in Delaware in 1907, Green Peyton Wertenbaker was an American writer, editor, and journalist whose work reached beyond fiction. Reference sources identify him as a contributor to the early development of science fiction and note that he also worked in magazine editing and journalism, including connections with Fortune and Time.
He is best remembered for very early science-fiction stories such as The Man from the Atom and The Chamber of Life. The Science Fiction Encyclopedia describes him as one of the pioneers of Hugo Gernsback’s early "scientifiction," and records that his first story was written when he was still a teenager.
Wertenbaker died in 1968. Although he is not a household name now, he remains a fascinating figure from the genre’s formative years: a writer who was present near the beginning, when science fiction was still inventing itself.