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Это НЕ Джордж Г. Смит (George H. Smith)

George Oliver Smith (April 9, 1911 - May 27, 1981) (also known as Wesley Long) was an American science fiction author. He is not to be confused with George H. Smith, another American science fiction author.

Biography

Smith was an active contributor to Astounding Science Fiction during the Golden Age of Science Fiction in the 1940s. His 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 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. He was given the First Fandom Hall of Fame award in 1980.

He 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.

Writing career

Smith wrote mainly about outer space, with such works as Operation Interstellar (1950), Lost in Space (1959), and Troubled Star (1957).

He is remembered chiefly for his Venus Equilateral series of short stories about a communications station in outer space. The stories were collected in Venus Equilateral (1947), which was later expanded as The Complete Venus Equilateral (1976).

His novel The Fourth "R" (1959) - re-published as The Brain Machine (1968) - was a digression from his focus on outer space, and provides one of the more interesting examinations of a child prodigy in science fiction.

Novels

Nomad (1950)
Operation Interstellar (1950)
Pattern for Conquest (1951)
Hellflower (1953)
The Space Plague (1955)
Fire in the Heavens (1958)
Lost in Space (1959)
Troubled Star (1959)
Delta Doll (1960)
Highways in Hiding (1967)
The Brain Machine (1968)
aka The Fourth R
The Path Of Unreason (1975)
The Year of Terror (1976)

Collections

Venus Equilateral (1947)
Complete Venus Equilateral (1976)
The Worlds of George O. (1982)
Instinct and Other SF (2008)

Short stories
QRM - Interplanetary (1942)
Lost Art (1943)
The Cosmic Jackpot (1952)
Interlude (1973)