Это НЕ Джордж Г. Смит (George H. Smith)<br/><b>George Oliver Smith</b> (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.<br/>Biography<br/>Smith was an active contributor to Astounding Science Fiction during the Golden Age of Science Fiction in the 1940s. His collaboration with the magazine&#039;s editor, John W. Campbell, Jr. was interrupted when Campbell&#039;s first wife, Doña, left him in 1949 and married Smith.<br/>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.<br/>He was a member of the all-male literary banqueting club the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of Isaac Asimov&#039;s fictional group of mystery solvers the Black Widowers.<br/>Writing career<br/>Smith wrote mainly about outer space, with such works as Operation Interstellar (1950), Lost in Space (1959), and Troubled Star (1957).<br/>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).<br/>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.<br/>Novels<br/>Nomad (1950)<br/>Operation Interstellar (1950)<br/>Pattern for Conquest (1951)<br/>Hellflower (1953)<br/>The Space Plague (1955)<br/>Fire in the Heavens (1958)<br/>Lost in Space (1959)<br/>Troubled Star (1959)<br/>Delta Doll (1960)<br/>Highways in Hiding (1967)<br/>The Brain Machine (1968)<br/> aka The Fourth R<br/>The Path Of Unreason (1975)<br/>The Year of Terror (1976)<br/>Collections<br/>Venus Equilateral (1947)<br/>Complete Venus Equilateral (1976)<br/>The Worlds of George O. (1982)<br/>Instinct and Other SF (2008)<br/>Short stories<br/> QRM - Interplanetary (1942) <br/> Lost Art (1943) <br/> The Cosmic Jackpot (1952) <br/> Interlude (1973)