Three Collections by George O. Smith
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Overview: George O. Smith was born on April 9, 1911 in Chicago, Illinois. He was an electronics engineer and science fiction author, most active and prominent in the 1940s in Astounding Science-Fiction. Smith’s collaboration with the magazine’s editor, John W. Campbell, Jr. was interrupted when Campbell’s first wife, Doña, left him in 1949 and married Smith.
Smith, who also used the pseudonym Wesley Long, wrote mainly about outer space. His novel The Fourth “R”, published in 1959, was a digression from his focus on outer space, and an examination of a child prodigy.
Smith was a member of the all-male literary banqueting club the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of Isaac Asimov’s fictional group of mystery solvers the Black Widowers.
Smith continued regularly publishing science fiction novels and stories until 1960. His output greatly diminished in the 1960s and 1970s when he had a job that required his undivided attention.
The autobiographical notes in The Worlds of George O., published in 1982, warmly and modestly evoke his life in the 1940s as a colleague and friend of John W. Campbell Jr., Robert A Heinlein and others.
In 1980, Smith was given the First Fandom Hall of Fame award.
George O. Smith died on May 27, 1981 in Rumson, New Jersey.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Complete Venus Equilateral (1976) SSC
The wacky adventures of the Scientists and other denizens of the communication space station ‘Venus Equilateral’. This is Golden Age mad science at it’s best, with rather wonderful futuristic vacuum tube technologies. Written mostly in the 1940s these stories, are of their time, but transcend it, with some wonderful villains, and entertaining plots.
Content:
Introduction
QRM—Interplanetary
Calling The Empress
Recoil
Lost Art
Off The Beam
The Long Way
Beam Pirate
Firing Line
Special Delivery
Pandora’s Millions
Mad Holiday
The External Triangle
Epilogue:—Identity
George O. Smith Anthology
A custom made Short Story Collection
Content:
Intro
Understanding
Alternate Ending
Alternate Ending 2
Fire, 2016!
IN THE CARDS
Intro
Meddler’s Moon
SPACEMAN’S LUCK
Intro
The Catspaw
Intro
The Planet Mender
COUNTER FOIL
HISTORY REPEATS
INSTINCT
Intro
Blind Time
LOST ART
THE BIG FIX
Stop Look and Dig
Spaceman’s Luck and Other Stories (ed. Tom’s eBooks, May 2021)
Content:
Introduction
The Undamned, (nv) Astounding Jan. 1947
A Dog’s Life, (ss) Thrilling Wonder Stories April 1948
The Mobius Trail, (nv) Thrilling Wonder Stories Dec. 1948
Spaceman’s Luck, (ss) Science Fiction Adventures Feb. 1953
Stop, Look and Dig, (ss) Space Science Fiction March 1953
Instinct, (ss) Astounding March 1959
The Undetected, (nv) Galaxy Dec. 1959
The Troublemakers, (na) Galaxy April 1960
Amateur in Chancery, (ss) Galaxy Oct. 1961
Counter Foil, (nv) Analog April 1964
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