A British Fan of All Trades, Peter Weston's many and varied activities include founding the longest-lived fan group in the U.K., editing the Andromeda series of original anthologies, chairing the Seacon '79 Worldcon, and editing Speculation.
During the 1960s he used the pseudonym "Malcolm Edwards" which caused confusion a few years later, when a real Malcolm Edwards began contributing to British fanzines. By coincidence, both the fake Malcolm Edwards and the real Malcolm Edwards went on to chair British Worldcons.
From 1963 until 1976 he published the award-winning, multi-named fanzine Zenith, Zenith Speculation, Speculation getting four Hugo nominations and a Nova award for it. His personal history of British fandom, With Stars in My Eyes was nominated for a Best Related Book Hugo in 2005. Following that, he began producing a new fanzine on British fan history, Prolapse and followed his tradition by renaming it Relapse a couple of years later, also winning a Nova award for that.
Additionally, he was the 1974 TAFF winner, the 1975 Doc Weir Award winner and 2007 Nova award winner of a committee award for "best fan".
He organized a series of science fiction symposia in Birmingham inspired by Speculation, co-founded the Birmingham Science Fiction Group (BSFG) in 1971 and helped start Novacon later that year. In 1979 he chaired the Worldcon, Seacon '79, and in October 2008 ran Cytricon V in Kettering, a sequel to and commemoration of the event at which the modern British Science Fiction Association was created. At Cytricon V a surprise ceremony was held, inducting Weston and fellow fan Rog Peyton into the long-dormant fannish Knights of Saint Fantony.
He was FGoH at Noreascon 4 the 2004 Worldcon.
For years, Peter's foundry has cast the Hugo rockets for the Hugo Awards; the bases are the fault responsibility of the individual Worldcon committees.
