author
John Victor Peterson
A pulp-era science fiction writer with a taste for strange futures and clever premises, he published magazine stories from the late 1930s into the 1950s and later wrote the novel Rock the Big Rock. His work still circulates through reprints and Project Gutenberg editions, keeping his offbeat speculative ideas easy to discover.
8 Audiobooks
Lie on the Beam
by John Victor Peterson
Political Application
by John Victor Peterson
The Gently Orbiting Blonde
by John Victor Peterson
The Psilent Partner
by Edward S. Staub, John Victor Peterson
Classified object
by John Victor Peterson
Second census
by John Victor Peterson
The oddly elusive brunette
by John Victor Peterson
The Lightning's Course
by John Victor Peterson
About the author
John Victor Peterson was an American science fiction author whose work appeared in genre magazines from the late 1930s through 1959. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction credits him with beginning in Astounding in 1938 and describes him as a steady writer of magazine SF during that period.
His fiction includes short stories such as Lost in the Future, Political Application, The Gently Orbiting Blonde, Second Census, and Classified Object. Project Gutenberg lists a number of these stories, which has helped preserve his work for modern readers.
Peterson also wrote a full-length novel, Rock the Big Rock, published in 1970. Some sources note that he also used the joint pseudonym Victor Valding for a collaboration with Allen Ingvald Benson. Reliable biographical details beyond his publishing record are hard to confirm, so his surviving reputation rests mostly on the stories themselves and their place in mid-century science fiction.