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Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by George O Smith:The Big FixTHE FOURTH "R"HIGHWAYS IN HIDINGHISTORY REPEATSINSTINCTSTOP LOOK AND DIG

George Oliver Smith (1911–1981) (not to be confused with George H. Smith) was an American science fiction author. 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. Included are:

OPERATION INTERSTELLARSTOP, LOOK, AND DIGHIGHWAYS IN HIDINGTHE FOURTH “R”INSTINCTHISTORY REPEATSTHE BIG FIXTHE UNDETECTEDTHE TROUBLEMAKERSAMATEUR IN CHANCERY

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''Space Science Fiction'' was launched in may of 1952. During it''s impressive run it published many of Science Fiction''s top writers. Collected here in this massive six hundred-plus page anthology are all of the most important stories that were published during its distinguished run. Included here are: ''Second Variety'' by Philip K. Dick; ''Youth'' by Isaac Asimov; ''To Each His Star'' by Bryce Walton; ''Security'' by Poul Anderson; ''Divinity'' by William Morrison; ''The Hour of Battle'' by Robert Sheckley; ''Instant of Decision'' by Randall Garrett; ''Let ''em Breathe Space!'' By Lester Del Rey; ''The Ultroom Error'' by Jerry Sohl; ''Infinite Intruder'' by Alan E. Nourse; ''Collectivum'' by Mike Lewis; ''The Adventurer'' by C. M. Kornbluth; ''Decision'' by Frank M. Robinson; ''Pursuit'' by Lester del Rey; ''Exile'' by H. B. Fyfe; ''Stop Look and Dig'' by George O. Smith; ''The Worshippers'' by Damon Knight; ''The Hunters'' by William Morrison; ''The Ego Machine'' by Henry Kuttner; ''The Variable Man'' by Philip K. Dick; and ''Ullr Uprising'' by H. Beam Piper.

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!

Edited by H. L. Gold, ''Galaxy Science Fiction'' hit the scene in 1950 and quickly became the leading science fiction magazine of its time. ‘Galaxy’ gave a home to writers that didn''t fit into ‘Astounding’ and ‘F&SF,’ and readers rejoiced. In this first ''Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack'' we bring you more than five hundred pages of fiction. These are the stories that helped ‘Galaxy Magazine’ carve it''s name on the Mount Rushmore of science fiction. This volume includes ‘Dream World’ by R. A. Lafferty; ‘The Imitation of Earth’ by James Stamers; ‘Amateur in Chancery’ by George O. Smith; ‘The Lamps of the Angels’ by Richard Sabia; ‘Conditionally Human’ by Walter M. Miller, Jr.; ‘Dawningsburgh’ by Wallace West; ‘Extracts from the Galactick Almanack’ by Laurence Janifer; ‘Breakdown’ by Herbert D. Kastle; ‘A Matter of Protocol’ by Jack Sharkey; ‘Charity Case’ by Jim Harmon; ‘The Rag and Bone Men’ by Algis Budrys; ‘Pick a Crime’ by Richard R. Smith; ‘Shatter the Wall’ by Sydney Van Scyoc; ‘Always a Qurono’ by Jim Harmon; ‘Subject to Change’ by Ron Goulart; ‘Sales Talk’ by Con Blomberg; ‘The Big Engine’ by Fritz Leiber; ‘Accidental Flight’ by F. L. Wallace; ‘The World That Couldn''t Be’ by Clifford D. Simak; ‘Solid Solution’ by James Stamers; ‘With These Hands’ by C. M. Kornbluth; ‘A Fall of Glass’ by Stanley R. Lee; ‘Sordman the Protector’ by Tom Purdom; ‘Jamieson’ by Bill Doede; ‘The Music Master of Babylon’ by Edgar Pangborn; and ‘The Defenders by Philip K. Dick.

The creature from Venus didn’t know right from left—and life and death hung in the balance!

Seven Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction by George O. Smith. Featured here: "Operation Interstellar", Instinct", "Stop Look and Dig", "The Troublemakers", "Amateur in Chancery", "The Undetected", "The Big Fix", and "History Repeats"

Highways in Hiding is a science fiction novel by American writer George O. Smith. It was published in 1956 by Gnome Press in an edition of 4,000 copies. The novel concerns ESP and a disease that turns men into supermen. It contains multiple plot lines concerning the interactions of people that can sense things (espers) and people that can read thoughts (telepaths). This is set against the plot of a secret society that is harboring people that are infected with a space borne illness called Mekstrom''s Disease.

The Fourth "R" (also known as The Brain Machine) is a science fiction novel by American writer George O. Smith, first published in 1959. It is a science fictional examination of the genius naïf phenomenon. The plot follows a five-year-old boy named Jimmy Holden, who was given the equivalent of a college education by virtue of his parents'' invention, an "Electromechanical Educator." In his review column for F&SF, Damon Knight selected the novel as one of the 10 best genre books of 1959.[1] R. D. Mullen reported that "Though it becomes tendentious and sentimental in its last chapters, [The Brain Machine] is up to that point a surprisingly good story of the difficulties of the superboy in a world run by stupid adults.

Venus Equilateral is a collection of short stories about a group of scientist that man a communications station. a collection of short stories that feature engineers and scientists doing science in space in the future.

Excerpt: "The telephone rang and the lieutenant of police Timothy McDowell grunted. He put down his magazine, and hastily covered the partially-clad damsel on the front cover before he answered the ringing phone. "McDowell," he grunted. "McDowell," came the voice in his ear. "I think ye''d better come over here." "What''s up?" "Been a riot at McCarthy''s on Boylston Street.""

Excerpt: "Walter Franks sat in the director''s office; his feet on the director''s desk. He was smoking one of the director''s cigarettes. He was drinking the director''s liquor, filched shamelessly from the director''s private filing cabinet where it reposed in the drawer marked "S." Drawer "B" would have given beer, but Walt preferred Scotch. He leaned forward and tossed the director''s cigarette into the director''s wastebasket and then he pressed the button on the desk and looked up. But it was not the director''s secretary who entered. It was his own, but that did not disturb Franks. He knew that the director''s secretary was off on Mars enjoying a honeymoon with the director. Jeanne entered and smiled. "Must you call me in here to witness you wasting the company''s time?" she asked in mock anger. "Now look, Jeanne, this is what Channing does." "No dice. You can''t behave as Don Channing behaves. The reason is my husband." "I didn''t call to have you sit on my lap. I want to know if the mail is in." "I thought so," she said. "And so I brought it in with me. Anything more?" "Not until you get a divorce," laughed Franks. "You should live so long," she said with a smile. She stuck her tongue out at him."

Excerpt: "A lot has been written about mankind starving amid plenty. But never before was a civilization confronted with the prospect of luxury amid bankruptcy—". "Keg Johnson was the executive type. He was the chief executive of Interplanet Transport, a position of no mean height. Keg had become the chief executive by sheer guts, excellent judgment, and the ability to gamble and win. Like any high executive in a culture based on a technical background, Keg was well aware of science. He was no master of the scientific method nor of laboratory technique. He was able to understand most of the long-haired concepts if they were presented in words of less than nine syllables, and he was more than anxious to make use of any scientific discovery that came from the laboratory. He knew that the laboratory paid off in the long run. Keg Johnson was strictly a good business man. He played a good game and usually won, because he could size up any situation at a glance and prepare his next move while his opponent was finishing his preparatory speech. So when Keg Johnson met Don Channing in the hallway of the courtroom in Buffalo, he was dangling an exact duplicate of the judge''s watch—a timepiece no longer a rare collector''s item."

Excerpt: "Mark Kingman was in a fine state of nerves. He looked upon life and the people in it as one views the dark-brown taste of a hangover. It seemed to him at the present time that the Lord had forsaken him, for the entire and complete success of the solar beam had been left only to Venus Equilateral by a sheer fluke of nature. Certainly he, nor anyone else, could have foreseen the Channing Layer, that effectively blocked any attempt to pierce it with the strange, sub-level energy spectrum over which the driver tube and the power-transmission tube worked, representing the extremes of the so-called spectrum. But Venus Equilateral, for their part, were well set. Ships plied the spaceways using their self-contained power only during atmospheric passage, and paid Venus Equilateral well for the privilege. The Relay Station itself was powered on the solar beam, and the costly shipments of potential power had been stopped. There were other relay stations that belonged to the communications company; Luna, Deimos and Phobos, and the six that circled Venus in lieu of a satellite; all were powered by the solar beam. And the solar observatory on Mercury used but little power, so the needs of the observatory became the sole income for Terran Electric''s planetary rights of the solar beam, since Mercury owned no air of its own."

Excerpt: "Thirty hours out of Mars for Terra, the Solar Queen sped along her silent, invisible course. No longer was she completely severed from all connection with the planets of the inner system; the trick cams that controlled the beams at Venus Equilateral kept the ship centered by sheer mathematics. It was a poor communications system, however, since it was but a one-way job. Any message-answering would have to be done thirty hours later when the ship made planetfall, and the regular terminal office of Interplanetary Communications could be employed In spite of her thirty hours at 2-G, which brought her velocity to eleven hundred miles per second, the beam-director cams did their job well enough. It was only in extreme cases of course-changing to dodge meteors that the beams lost the ship; since the cams were not clairvoyant, there was no way to know when the autopilot juggled the controls to miss a bit of cosmic dust. The cams continued to spear the space through which the ship was supposed to pass according to the course constants."

Excerpt: ""You''re nuts," came the reply, but the voice on the telephone was jovially reproving rather than sarcastic. "I can''t do anything about this order. Peter Manton blinked. "But it has a Four-A-One priority." Brannon nodded—invisibly, of course—and said, "Sure you have a top priority. Anything your lab wants has top. But darn it, Peter, the best priority in the world isn''t going to buy you a dozen mousetraps that are nonexistent." "But—" "Besides which, that building you''re in is about as rat-proof as a sealed gasoline can. There isn''t an item of comestible in the place." "I know that. And the mice can go hungry for all I care. But the mice don''t seem to understand that bringing food into the place is not only forbidden by law but dangerous." "But there ain''t a mousetrap in the country. Ding bust it, Peter, mousetraps take spring wire, and labor. The people who used to make mousetraps are now making bombsights and tanks. Besides, Peter, over at that laboratory of yours there should be enough brains and gear to really build the Better Mousetrap. If you can spot a plane at fifty miles, split atoms, and fire radio equipment out of a cannon, you ought to be able to dispose of a mouse or two." Peter grinned. "You mean spot ''em with radar, and then shoot ''em down in flames with proximity fuses loaded with plutonium war heads? That might be a little strenuous, don''t you think? Like cutting the throat to stop the spread of impetigo." "Well, if you have mice over there, you think of something. But top priority or not, we can''t get you your mousetraps!" Peter hung up unhappily. He turned from his desk to see an impertinent mouse sitting on the floor watching him out of beady black eyes. Peter hurled a book at it and swore, a rare thing for him. The mouse disappeared behind a bank of filing cabinets."

Nomad is a science fiction novel by American writer George O. Smith. It was first published in book form in 1950 by Prime Press in an edition of 2,500 copies. The novel was originally serialized in three parts in the magazine Astounding beginning in December 1944, under Smith''s pseudonym, Wesley Long. The novel concerns Guy Maynard, of Earth, who is rescued from his Martian captors by Thomakein of the planet Eterne, an invisible wandering planet. After spending time on Eterne, Maynard returns to Earth where he uses the knowledge he gained to launch an invasion against the newly discovered planet Mephisto. He returns to Earth a hero, but is later court martialed and driven from the Galactic Patrol. He seeks refuge on Eterne by impersonating their ruler. When he is discovered, he flees to Mephisto and there raises an army enabling him to conquer the Solar system becoming its emperor.