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Article: THE TRUTH IS IN HERE; CONSUMING PASSIONS Rog Peyton tells Jo Ind about his all-consuming passion for science fiction.(National)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- March 29, 2000
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Science fiction is a term as incomprehensible to many people as emotions are to Mr Spock.
When Rog Peyton set up his Andromeda book shop in Birmingham in 1973, he contacted the local press and told them he was selling science fiction, fantasy and horror.
The journalist was interested. 'Fantasy, eh?' he said. 'So is that about whips, rubber trousers and naughty nurses?'
Rog tried to explain that it was literature like Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and C S Lewis's Narnia stories but his efforts only left the journalist bemused.
Now, before any lay-people start ...