byGeorge Oliver Smith (1911–1981) was an American science fiction author. He should not be confused with the prolific George H. Smith, another American author who also published (among other things) a significant body of science fiction work.
Smith primarily wrote work set in space, including the novels Operation Interstellar (1950), Lost in Space (1959), and Troubled Star (1957). However, he is remembered chiefly for two works: the “Venus Equilateral” series of short stories about a communications station in space, designed to relay messages between Earth and Venus, and the novel The Fourth “R” (also published as The Brain Machine), about an education device that creates a five-year-old super-boy, who must escape those who wish to capture him long enough to grow up an extract his revenge
