George H. Smith
George Henry Smith (born October 27, 1922 in Vicksburg , Mississippi ; died May 22, 1996 ) was an American writer. He is best known as a science fiction writer, but has published in several other genres , including erotic novels and soft porn, using numerous pseudonyms , including writing as Jan Hudson, Jerry Jason, Jan Smith, George Hudson Smith, Diana Summers and Hal Stryker.
Life
Smith was the son of George Henry Smith and Maria Eve, née Poche. From 1942 to 1945 he served in the US Navy . In 1950 he graduated from the University of Southern California with a bachelor's degree . In the same year he married the writer M. Jane Deer, with whom he also wrote some books under the pseudonym MJ Deer. Since then he has worked as a full-time writer.
He published his first short story with The Last Spring , which appeared in Startling Stories magazine in 1953 . The majority of his short stories then appeared by the late 1950s, when he switched to writing novels. His early science fiction is mostly a mixture of SF, action and erotic, but he also began to publish numerous soft porn paperbacks in the early 1960s for relevant publishers.
Somewhat ambitious books began with The Four Day Weekend (1966), when the Uprising of the Machines also appeared in German, and above all with a series of novels in which he processed Celtic mythology . This heading includes Druids' World (1967), Witch Queen of Lochlann (1969) and in the Fantasy - alternate world Annwn be moved Dylan Macbride -Romantrilogie (1969-1978).
Smith died in 1996 at the age of 73.
bibliography
- Dylan Macbride / Annwn (series of novels)
- 1 Kar Kaballa. 1969.
- 2 The Second War of the Worlds. 1976.
- 3 The Island Snatchers. 1978.
- Novels
- Whip of Passion. 1959.
- Brutal Ecstacy. 1960.
- Swamp lust. 1960.
- Baroness of Blood. 1961. (also called Beautiful but Brutal )
- Scourge of the Blood Cult. 1961.
- The Coming of the Rats. 1961. (also known as Virgin Mistress )
- 1976 ... the Year of Terror. 1961. (also called The Year for Love )
- Soft lips on black velvet. 1961.
- Assault. 1962. (as Ross Camra, also as Space Sex by Roy Warren, 1965, and anonymously as Sex Machine )
- Private Hell. 1962.
- Shocking She-Animal. 1962.
- Fever hot woman. 1962.
- A Place Named Hell. 1963. (with M. Jane Deer, as MJ Deer)
- Flames of Desire. 1963. (with M. Jane Deer, as MJ Deer)
- Doomsday Wing. 1963.
- Doomsday Wing. 1963.
- Bedroom payoff. 1964. (as Jerry August)
- Strip artist. 1964.
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The Unending Night. 1964. (with Marion Zimmer Bradley )
- German: like a fireball. Moewig (Terra # 496), 1967.
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The Forgotten Planet. 1965.
- German: In the realm of the forgotten. Moewig (Terra Nova # 26), 1968.
- The Forgotten Planet. 1965.
- Wildcat. 1965. (as Alan Robinson)
- Orgy Buyer. 1965. (as John Dexter)
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The Four Day Weekend. 1966.
- German: uprising of the machines. Moewig (Terra Taschenbuch # 161), 1969.
- Four Bed Wildcat. 1966. (as Jerry August)
- The Four Day Weekend. 1966.
- Druids' World. 1967.
- Novice Sex Queen. 1968. (as Jeremy August)
- Witch Queen of Lochlann. 1969.
- The Devil's Breed. 1979.
- The rogues. 1980.
- The Firebrands. 1980.
- NYPD 2025. 1985. (as Hal Stryker)
- A Rebel's Pleasure. 1986.
- Novels as Jan Hudson
- Passion's Web. 1961.
- Satan's Daughter. 1961.
- Love Cult. 1961.
- Love Goddess. 1961.
- Girls Afire. 1962.
- Sorority sluts. 1962.
- Strange harem. 1962.
- Hell's Highway (1962)
- Gang girls. 1963.
- The Hottest Party in Town. 1963.
- The Virtuous Harlots. 1963.
- The Lovemakers. 1965. (also called Sweet Invitation , 1974)
- Hells Angels. 1965. (also called The New Barbarians , 1973)
- Those Sexy Saucer People. 1967. (also as The People in the Saucers )
- The multi-sex crowd. 1969.
- Bikers at War. 1976.
- Water witch. 1988.
- Novels as Jerry Jason
- Sex mode! 1963.
- Country Club Lesbian. 1963.
- Sex mode! 1963.
- The Psycho Makers. 1964.
- The Psycho Makers. 1964.
- Lesbian Triangle. 1965.
- The Virgin Agent. 1967.
- Novels as Robert Hadley
- Two Times for Love. 1965.
- An intimate life. 1969.
- Pucker power. 1970.
- Bedtime Betsy. 1976.
- Novels as George Devlin
- Girl in heat. 1972.
- Swappers Unlimited. 1974.
- The Hungry Years. 1974.
- Bikini girl. 1978. (also as Girl in the Red Bikini )
- Blonde vixen. 1978.
- Novels as Diana Summers
- Wild is the heart. 1978.
- Love's Wicked Ways. 1978.
- Fallen Angel. 1981.
- Louisiana. 1984.
- The Emperor's Lady. 1984.
- Short stories
- The Last Spring. 1953.
- The Savages. 1953.
- Narakan Rifles, About Face! 1954. (as Jan Smith)
- The Watchers. 1954. (as Jan Smith)
- One more chance. 1954. (as Jan Smith)
- The Ordeal of Colonel Johns. 1954.
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The Last Crusade. 1955.
- German: The defector. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 25. Ullstein (Ullstein 2000 # 45 (2964)), 1973, ISBN 3-548-02964-1 .
- The Towers of Silence. 1955.
- Witness. 1955.
- The unwanted. 1955.
- At the bridge. 1955.
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The Three Spacemen. 1955. (also as George Hudson Smith)
- German: Three spacemen. In: Walter Ernsting (Ed.): Utopia special volume, # 1. Pabel, 1955.
- Elected. 1956. (as George Hudson Smith)
- Shrine of Hate. 1956. (as George Hudson Smith)
- The Other Army. 1956.
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The Ships in the Sky. 1957.
- German: Ships in Heaven. In: Bert Koeppen (Ed.): Utopia-Magazin 13. Pabel, 1958.
- The Night the TV Went Out. 1958.
- Hello, Terra Central! 1958.
- Benefactor. 1958.
- The Outcasts. 1958.
- Perfect marriage. 1959.
- Ego transfer machine. 1959.
- Paradox Lost. 1959.
- The Last Days of LA 1959.
- The bare facts. 1959.
- Specimens. 1959.
- The great secret. 1959.
- Too Robot to Marry. 1959.
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In the Imagicon. 1966.
- German: The world of illusions. In: Walter Ernsting (Ed.): Galaxy 6. Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3077), 1966.
- The Night Before. 1966.
- The look. 1966.
- The Plague. 1966.
- In the Land of Love. 1970.
- Generation gaps. 1972. (as Clancy O'Brien)
- A matter of freedoms. 1973. (as Clancy O'Brien)
- Flame Tree Planet. 1973.
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Take Me to Your Leader. 1980.
- German: We can deal with them like Lee with Washington. In: Isaac Asimov , Martin Harry Greenberg , Joseph D. Olander (eds.): Fireworks of the SF. Goldmann (Edition '84: The Positive Utopias # 8), 1984, ISBN 3-442-08408-3 .
- Non-fiction
- Who Is Ronald Reagan? 1968.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 1,971th
literature
- Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 386.
- Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 915 f.
- John Clute : Smith, George H. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3. Edition. (Online edition), version dated August 12, 2018.
- Don D'Ammassa: Smith, George H (enry). In: Noelle Watson, Paul E. Schellinger: Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. St. James Press, Chicago 1991, ISBN 1-55862-111-3 , pp. 750 f.
- Stephen H. Goldman: Smith, George H (enry). In: James Gunn : The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Viking, New York et al. a. 1988, ISBN 0-670-81041-X , p. 424 f.
- Robert Reginald : Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. A Checklist, 1700-1974 with Contemporary Science Fiction Authors II. Gale, Detroit 1979, ISBN 0-8103-1051-1 , p. 1079.
- Robert Reginald: Contemporary Science Fiction Authors. Arno Press, New York 1974, ISBN 0-405-06332-6 , pp. 250 f.
- Donald H. Tuck : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1968. Advent, Chicago 1974, ISBN 0-911682-20-1 , p. 399.
Web links
- George H. Smith in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Works by Smith, George H. in Project Gutenberg ( currently usually not available for users from Germany )
- Works by and about George H. Smith at Open Library
- George H Smith in Fantastic Fiction (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Smith, George H. |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Smith, George Henry (full name); August, Jeremy (pseudonym); August, Jerry (pen name); Camra, Ross (pseudonym); Deer, MJ (pseudonym); Dexter, John (pen name); Hudson, Jan (pseudonym); Jason, Jerry (pen name); O'Brien, Clancy (pseudonym); Robinson, Alan (pen name); Smith, George Hudson (pen name); Smith, Jan (pen name); Stryker, Hal (pseudonym); Summers, Diana (pseudonym) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 27, 1922 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vicksburg , Mississippi |
DATE OF DEATH | May 22, 1996 |