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George O. Smith (April 9,1911 – May 27, 1981) is a science fiction writer who published largely in Astounding. His first published story launched his best-remembered series, the "Venus Equilateral" sequence which involved a communications space station orbiting Venus. The series was collected in 1947 and an expanded edition was published in 1976. He is also remembered for his novel, The Fourth "R". He died in 1981.

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