Peter Duncan
(January 7, 1918 – August 8, 1994)
Peter Duncan was the fannish nom de plume, according to FictionMags Index, of B. M. (Butler Markham) "Buddy" Atkinson, Jr., later a journalist, humor columnist and writer for TV shows including The Beverly Hillbillies.
He co-published Science Fiction Forward with Ray Van Houten, with whom he also attempted to launch the Intellectual Brotherhood of Pro-Scientists.
The part of his hatchet job "Why Critics Get Dyspepsia, or, Weird Fiction Today" (Science Fiction Collector Vol. 5 Issue 3 / #27, Sep/Oct 1939) about the death of Robert E. Howard appalled H. C. Koenig, who wrote:
"Every reader has a right to criticize, provided he or she keeps within the bounds of decency. [...] But his paragraphs on the Howard suicide are about the lowest, meanest, most despicable and contemptible paragraphs it's ever been my misfortune to read [...] Duncan should be blacklisted by every decent fan magazine."
— "Their Own Petard", Science Fiction Weekly #8, April 7, 1940
He clearly gafiated during the war but reused the name Peter Duncan for two paperbacks mixing crime, comic and risqué elements in 1959 and 1960. The former became popular in France.
- Obituary in the Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal.
- Mystery Review: PETER DUNCAN – Sweet Cheat
- The Tell-Tale Tart review, with a link to Atkinson's 1953 story.
- French Wikipedia entry.
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