George O. Smith

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  • Bibliography:
    40 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1972
  • Latest Book:
    July 2023
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Book List in Order: 40 titles

  • Scientists' Nightmares

  • Interlude

    in Astounding
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  • Venus Equilateral

  • The Brain Machine

  • The Fourth "R"

    When Jimmy's mother and father are murdered by their best friend for a radical new invention that educates children, Jimmy must escape and survive until he reaches adulthood. The last copy of the plans for the invention are stored in his brain, and t...

  • Comp Venus Equilateral

    The wacky adventures of the Scientists and other denizens of the communication space station 'Venus Equilateral'. This is Golden Age mad science at it's best, with rather wonderful futuristic vacuum tube technologies. Written mostly in the 1940s thes...

  • Worlds of George O.

    Includes an introduction by Frederik Pohl, and new story notes by Smith. Stories include: Blind Time (1946); The Planet Mender (1952); The Catspaw (1948); Rat Race (1947); Meddler's Moon (1947); Meddler's Moon (radio script); In the Cards (1947); His...

  • Hell Flower

    Charles Farradyne had crashed a spaceship into The Bog on Venus. Thirty-two people died -- and the only excuse he had was a wild story of sabotage in the control room. He was done for, unless he cleared himself…whatever the cost!...

  • Stop Look and Dig

    The enlightened days of mental telepathy and ESP should have made the world a better place, but the minute the Rhine Institute opened up, all the crooks decided it was time to go collegiate!...



  • Space Plague

    Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. “Space Plague,” written by George O. Smith, is about one man’s nightmare quest. Part of Steve Cornell’s life had been snatched away from h...

  • Operation Interstellar and the Thing from Underneath

    Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic science fiction double novels. The first novel is by sci-fi great, George O. Smith. “Operation Interstellar” is a grand piece of space opera. For years men had struggled with the linking u...

  • The George O. Smith Omnibus

    Three SF Classics--One Low Price! First, the greatest novel of mutant supermen and women ever written, and our publisher's favorite Smith novel, Highways in Hiding. Then settle back with a very delightful and very hip collection of stories including ...

  • Complete Science Pulp

    Contents Instinct (1959) Stop Look and Dig (1953) History Repeats (1959) Highways in Hiding (1956) The Big Fix (1959) The Fourth R (1959) Operation Interstellar (1950) Instinct (1959) You can keep a good man down, if you've got enough headstart, are ...

  • History Repeats

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

  • The Big Fix

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

  • Instinct

  • Operation Interstellar

    Paul Grayson walked the city street slowly. He was sauntering towards the spaceport, but he was in no hurry. He had allowed himself plenty of time to breathe the fresh spring air, to listen to the myriad of sounds made by his fellow men, and to revel...

  • The Troublemakers

    The living room reflected wealth, position, good taste. In size it was a full ten feet by fourteen, with nearly an eight-foot ceiling. Light was furnished by glow panels precisely balanced in color to produce light's most flattering tint for the woma...

  • One of Three

    It was an invasion like no other -- across not land or space, but across the dimensions. The people of two other Earths, victims of atomic experiments gone wrong, are seeking the answers to their dilemma in our world...whether we want to help or not....



  • The Undamned

    During the Third Interplanetary War, atomic bombing sprang up, died, and then continued on a very strange nuisance-value basis. It became complex, and upon the 1327th Day of the Third Interplanetary War, interplanetary robombing assumed a most danger...

  • Meddler's Moon

    He travelled back in time to find his grandfather the right wife. Only his grandfather had other ideas...and promptly got engaged to the wrong woman!...

  • Pattern For Conquest

    Earthmen are overwhelmed by alien invaders, but then they attempt to conquer their foes from within....

  • Problem in solid

    Martin Hammer should have been prepared for anything. As the world’s foremost producer of motion pictures, he should have taken any situation from earthquake to fatherhood without a qualm or a turned eyebrow. But Hammer had not seen everything -- y...

  • Venus Equilateral by George O. Smith

    Venus Equilateral by George O. Smith is a science fiction novel that tells the story of a space station in orbit around Venus. This massive station, known as Venus Equilateral, is a technological marvel, capable of maintaining a population of thousan...

  • The Kingdom of the Blind

    Psychologists said that James Forrest Carroll had lost his mind -- but they were forced to admit that he alone could save the Solar System from a fearsome menace from the outer reaches! A classic pulp science fiction novel, first published in Startli...

  • Rat Race

    The plague was man-made, and it promised a devastating effect on mankind. Stopping it was -- quite literally -- a rat race! Classic science fiction by George O. Smith....

  • Troubled star

    They wanted to make a traffic light of Old Sol...and they were surprised to get the red light from a green spaceman! A classic science fiction novel first published in the Feburary 1953 issue of Startling Stories magazine....

  • Spacemen Lost

    It was the greatest manhunt in history...and while this frantic rescue mission went on, the alien spaceships were watching and waiting, holding themselves ready to pounce......

  • Hellflower



  • Dark Recess

    Clifford Maculay was the one man who could explain the curious shift in the universe, which was far more than the academic matter it seemed to be. But Maculay had been "cured", and was no longer interested....There are two basic ways to treat persona...

  • The Trans-Galactic Twins

  • Atomic bonanza by George O. Smith

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    Atomic Bonanza by George O. Smith is a classic science fiction novel set in the mid-20th century, exploring the possibilities and perils of atomic energy. Published in 1956, it is a thrilling and thought-provoking adventure that transports readers to...

  • The black alarm by George O. Smith

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    The Black Alarm by George O. Smith is a classic science fiction novel that explores the possibilities of space travel and human exploration. Set in the distant future, the story follows the adventures of Dr. John Pollard, a brilliant scientist who is...

  • Booby prize by George O. Smith

    • / Mystery
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    Booby Prize is a science fiction novel by George O. Smith, published in 1959. The story is set in the near future, where humanity has colonized several planets in the solar system and invented faster-than-light travel. The plot revolves around a grou...

  • Dark recess by George O. Smith

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    Dark Recess by George O. Smith is a science fiction novel that takes readers on a thrilling journey through space and time. The story is set in a future where humanity has colonized the solar system and developed advanced technology to explore the un...

  • Highways in Hiding

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    It was infinitely worse when everyone in the world insisted it couldn't have happened the way he knew it had.

    In a world where ESP and telepathy were normal, it was difficult to keep secrets. But Steve's search for his missing sweetheart bro...

  • Instinct and Other SF

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    STOP LOOK AND DIG A hard-boiled esper in a hard-boiled paranormal future. In a world where the cops can use extra-sensory perception to help prevent and solve crimes, criminals go mental . . . And a hot babe by the name of Martha could really dig tha...

  • The Trans-Galactic Twins by George O. Smith

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    The Trans-Galactic Twins is a thrilling science fiction novel written by George O. Smith. Set in a far-off future, it tells the story of twin siblings, Tom and Pat, who have inherited their father's spaceship business. The siblings are young and inex...

  • The Undamned by George O. Smith

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    The Undamned by George O. Smith is a classic science fiction novel that explores the possibilities and dangers of interstellar travel.The story follows the crew of the starship Hound of Heaven as they embark on a journey to a distant planet called Am...



  • The Works of George O Smith

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

George O. Smith has published 40 books.

George O. Smith does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Trans-Galactic Twins, was published in July 2023.

The first book by George O. Smith, Scientists' Nightmares, was published in January 1972.

No. George O. Smith does not write books in series.
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