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George O. Smith

Lifespan
1911 – 1981
Nationality
American
Active
1942 – 1961
Works held
55

George O. Smith (1911–1981) was a professional electronics engineer, and it showed: his Venus Equilateral stories, set aboard a communications relay station, are prized for grounding their problem-solving plots in genuine technical detail. A regular in Astounding during its Golden Age, he exemplified the era's engineer-hero tradition of competent people solving hard problems with science.

The works

  1. 1961
    Cover of Amateur in Chancery Amateur in Chancery
  2. 1960
    Cover of The Troublemakers The Troublemakers Cover of Time for survival Time for survival
  3. 1959
    Cover of History Repeats History Repeats Cover of The Fourth "R" The Fourth "R" Cover of The Undetected The Undetected
  4. 1958
    Cover of The Big Fix The Big Fix
  5. 1956
    Cover of Highways in Hiding Highways in Hiding
  6. 1954
    Cover of Spacemen lost Spacemen lost Cover of Stop Look and Dig Stop Look and Dig
  7. 1953
    Cover of Home is the Spaceman Home is the Spaceman Cover of Spaceman's luck Spaceman's luck Cover of Troubled star Troubled star
  8. 1952
    Cover of Instinct Instinct Cover of The hellflower The hellflower
  9. 1951
    Cover of Atomic bonanza Atomic bonanza Cover of Dark recess Dark recess Cover of The black alarm The black alarm
  10. 1950
    Cover of Dynasty of the lost Dynasty of the lost Cover of Operation Interstellar Operation Interstellar Cover of The death crystal The death crystal Cover of The world-mover The world-mover Cover of Two worlds for one Two worlds for one
  11. 1948
    Cover of One of three One of three Cover of The Catspaw The Catspaw Cover of The incredible invasion The incredible invasion
  12. 1947
    Cover of Meddler's Moon Meddler's Moon Cover of Problem in solid Problem in solid Cover of The Undamned The Undamned Cover of The answer The answer Cover of The kingdom of the blind The kingdom of the blind
  13. 1946
    Cover of Alien Alien Cover of Blind Time Blind Time Cover of Fine Feathers Fine Feathers Cover of Pattern for Conquest Pattern for Conquest Cover of The Impossible Pirate The Impossible Pirate Cover of Trouble Trouble
  14. 1945
    Cover of Identity Identity Cover of Pandora's Millions Pandora's Millions Cover of Special Delivery Special Delivery Cover of The fixer The fixer Cover of Trouble Times Two Trouble Times Two Cover of Vocation Vocation
  15. 1944
    Cover of Beam Pirate Beam Pirate Cover of Circle of Confusion Circle of Confusion Cover of Latent Image Latent Image Cover of Nomad Nomad Cover of Off the Beam Off the Beam Cover of Redevelopment Redevelopment Cover of The Long Way The Long Way
  16. 1943
    Cover of Calling the Empress Calling the Empress Cover of Lost Art Lost Art Cover of Recoil Recoil
  17. 1942
    Cover of QRM-Interplanetary QRM-Interplanetary Cover of Venus Equilateral Venus Equilateral

Wrote across

1940s1950s1960s

Recurring themes

Space OperaHard SFSocial SFPsychic PowersFirst ContactMilitary SFAdventureTime Travel

Kindred authors shared themes

Murray LeinsterNelson S. BondRandall GarrettH. Beam PiperJim HarmonRobert SilverbergStephen MarloweAlan Edward Nourse

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Randall GarrettStephen MarloweMurray LeinsterBryce WaltonNelson S. BondH. Beam PiperMack ReynoldsAlan Edward NourseFritz LeiberRobert Silverberg

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