Roger D. Aycock

Writing mainly as Roger Dee, Roger D. Aycock was an American science fiction author born on December 6, 1914, in Floyd County, Georgia, and he died on April 5, 2004. His fiction began appearing in science fiction magazines in 1949, and he became a regular presence in the field during the 1950s.

He is remembered chiefly for short fiction rather than long novels. Reference sources credit him with more than fifty stories published between 1949 and 1971, and also note that he used other names, including John Starr and Rodzer Di.

Aycock spent his life in and around Rome, Georgia, according to his obituary, while building a body of work that still turns up in reprints, public-domain editions, and classic science fiction collections. For listeners who enjoy brisk, idea-driven vintage SF, his stories offer a strong glimpse of the magazine age at full speed.