Career
He is not to be confused with George H. Smith, another American science fiction author Smith was an active contributor to Astounding Science Fiction during the Golden Age of Science Fiction in the 1940s. 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 is remembered chiefly for his Venus Equilateral series of short stories about a communications station in outer space. Most of the stories were collected in Venus Equilateral (1947), which was later expanded with the remaining three stories as The Complete Venus Equilateral (1976).
His novel The Fourth "R" (1959) – re-published as The Brain Machine (1968) – was a digression from his focus on outer space, and an examination of a child prodigy.