John Victor Peterson

Active from the late 1930s through the 1950s, John Victor Peterson wrote science fiction during the heyday of the pulp magazines. Reference sources on speculative fiction credit him with stories appearing in magazines including Astounding, Fantastic Universe, and Infinity Science Fiction, showing a career that stretched across several important venues for mid-century genre readers.

His known fiction includes works such as "Martyrs Don't Mind Dying," "Lie on the Beam," "Classified Object," "The Gently Orbiting Blonde," and "Second Census." He is also associated with the novel Rock the Big Rock. Some bibliographic sources note that he also wrote under the name Victor Valding.

Reliable biographical detail about his personal life is scarce in the sources I could confirm, so the picture that emerges is mainly through his publications: a working magazine-era science fiction author whose stories have remained available through archival and public-domain collections.