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Smith, George H

Entry updated 19 November 2023. Tagged: Author.

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(1922-1996) US author of much popular fiction and considerable sf, under his own name and several pseudonyms including books as by Ross Camra, Jan Hudson, Jerry Jason, Jan Smith, George Hudson Smith, Diana Summers (not sf), Hal Stryker, Roy Warren and – mostly with his wife M Jane Deer – M J Deer. He began publishing sf with "The Last Spring" for Startling Stories in 1953, and became very active after about 1960, releasing his first sf novels – Satan's Daughter (1961) as by Jan Hudson, 1976 – Year of Terror (1961; vt The Year for Love anon circa 1965), Scourge of the Blood Cult (1961), The Coming of the Rats (1961) and Love Cult (1961 as by Jan Hudson) – in a rush. These early novels are, however, rather negligible, though their combination of sf tropes and soft pornography is humorously laid on; the collaborative Flames of Desire (1963) as by M J Deer, a Post-Holocaust tales set in flood-devastated California, is also soft pornography.

But with The Four-Day Weekend (1966) Smith began to strike a more sustained note, and in the following year started a two-part sequence of tales set in the Parallel World of Annwn: Druids' World (1967), Witch Queen of Lochlann (1969), Kar Kaballa (1969 dos), Second War of the Worlds (1976), in which H G Wells's Martians, now immune to disease, invade Annwn, and The Island Snatchers (1978), in which the version of Ireland housed in Annwn begins to drift across the Atlantic. The last three volumes of this sequence, which share the same main characters, present a complex interplay between this world and the alternative domain; they are Smith's most telling example of the kind of fantasy-textured sf at which he was best. Short stories of interest include "The Last Days of L.A." (February 1959 If) and "In the Imagicon" (February 1966 Galaxy) (see Virtual Reality). [JC]

George Henry Smith

born Vicksburg, Mississippi: 27 October 1922

died 22 May 1996

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Annwn

individual titles (selected)

  • Satan's Daughter (Los Angeles, California: Art Enterprises/Epic, 1961) as by Jan Hudson [pb/]
  • 1976 – Year of Terror (Los Angeles, California: Art Enterprises/Epic, 1961) [pb/Doug Weaver]
    • The Year for Love (North Hollywood, California: Art Enterprises/Epic, 1961) anonymous [vt of the above: pb/]
  • The Coming of the Rats (Los Angeles, California: Art Enterprises/Epic, 1961) [pb/]
  • Scourge of the Blood Cult (Los Angeles, California: Art Enterprises/Epic, 1961) [pb/]
  • Love Cult (Los Angeles, California: Art Enterprises/Epic, 1961) as by Jan Hudson [pb/]
  • Assault! (Los Angeles, California: Art Enterprises/Epic, 1962) as by Ross Camra [pb/]
    • Space Sex (Los Angeles: Heart, 1967) as by Roy Warren [vt with changed byline of the above: pb/]
    • Sex Machine (no place identified: Ram Books, circa 1967) anonymously [vt with changed byline of the above: pb/]
  • Fever Hot Woman (Chicago, Illinois: Novel Books, 1962) [pb/uncredited]
  • Flames of Desire (Hollywood, California: France' International Publications, 1963) with M Jane Deer as by M J Deer [pb/]
  • Doomsday Wing (Derby, Connecticut: Monarch Books, 1963) [pb/Earl Mayan]
  • A Place Named Hell (Hollywood, California: International Publications/France Book, 1963) with M Jane Deer as by M J Deer [early version appeared January 1954 Planet Stories as "Narakan Rifles, About Face!" as by Jan Smith: pb/]
  • Sexodus (Hollywood, California: Imperial Publishing/Boudoir Books, 1963) as by Jerry Jason [pb/]
  • The Unending Night (Derby, Connecticut: Monarch Books, 1964) [pb/Ralph Brillhart]
  • The Forgotten Planet (New York: Avalon Books, 1965) [hb/Gray Morrow]
  • The Psycho Makers (Hollywood, California: Tempo Publishing/Nice Time Books, 1964) as by Jerry Jason [pb/]
  • The Four-Day Weekend (New York: Belmont Books, 1966) [pb/Jerome Podwil]
  • Those Sexy Saucer People (San Diego, California: Greenleaf Classics, 1961) as by Jan Hudson [pb/Ed Smith]
  • NYPD 2025 (New York: Pinnacle Books, 1985) as by Hal Stryker [pb/]
  • Loveswept #293: Water Witch (New York: Bantam Books, 1988) as by Jan Hudson [pb/]

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