George O. Smith

George Oliver Smith (April 9, 1911 – May 27, 1981) (known also by the pseudonym Wesley Long) was an American science fiction author.Smith continued regularly publishing science fiction novels and stories until 1960.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.He is remembered chiefly for his Venus Equilateral series of short stories about a communications station in outer space.His novel The Fourth "R" (1959) – re-published as The Brain Machine (1968) – was an examination of a child prodigy, a digression from his concern with outer space.
George O Smith c.1955
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