George Oliver Smith
born Chicago, Illinois: 9 April 1911
died Rumson, New Jersey: 27 May 1981
George O. Smith was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as novels, short stories and essays and a book reviewer.
His first story was QRM – Interplanetary (1942) in Astounding science Fiction, and almost all his work was published in that magazine. He became one of the most active contributors to the magazine during the Golden Age of Science Fiction. However, collaboration with its editor John W. Campbell, Jr. was interrupted when Campbell's first wife, Doña, left Campbell in 1949 and married Smith.
Most of his work concern space travel, such as Operation Interstellar (1950), Lost in Space (1959) and Troubled Star (1957).
He is best known for his Venus Equilateral series of linked stories about a communications space station in the forward trojan position of the planet Venus. His work often included detailed explanations of technical problems and scientific concepts, though sometimes with less emphasis on character development or plot plausibility.
Most of these stories were collected in Venus Equilateral (1947), later expanded with the remaining three stories as The Complete Venus Equilateral (1976).
Smith’s novel The Fourth "R" (1959) aka The Brain Machine (1968), concerns a child prodigy rather than outer space.
He is another of the authors whose work has occasionally appeared in the queries in our SFF Chronicles Book Search forum
A list of his works is to be found here: Summary Bibliography: George O. Smith
Wikipedia page: George O. Smith - Wikipedia
born Chicago, Illinois: 9 April 1911
died Rumson, New Jersey: 27 May 1981
George O. Smith was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as novels, short stories and essays and a book reviewer.
His first story was QRM – Interplanetary (1942) in Astounding science Fiction, and almost all his work was published in that magazine. He became one of the most active contributors to the magazine during the Golden Age of Science Fiction. However, collaboration with its editor John W. Campbell, Jr. was interrupted when Campbell's first wife, Doña, left Campbell in 1949 and married Smith.
Most of his work concern space travel, such as Operation Interstellar (1950), Lost in Space (1959) and Troubled Star (1957).
He is best known for his Venus Equilateral series of linked stories about a communications space station in the forward trojan position of the planet Venus. His work often included detailed explanations of technical problems and scientific concepts, though sometimes with less emphasis on character development or plot plausibility.
Most of these stories were collected in Venus Equilateral (1947), later expanded with the remaining three stories as The Complete Venus Equilateral (1976).
Smith’s novel The Fourth "R" (1959) aka The Brain Machine (1968), concerns a child prodigy rather than outer space.
He is another of the authors whose work has occasionally appeared in the queries in our SFF Chronicles Book Search forum
A list of his works is to be found here: Summary Bibliography: George O. Smith
Wikipedia page: George O. Smith - Wikipedia
