tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post2947878496089378771..comments2024-03-28T20:53:49.167-04:00Comments on The Adventures of Roberta X: Yet More StarshippingRoberta Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-82464171500889371832012-06-12T07:51:32.283-04:002012-06-12T07:51:32.283-04:00Ace or somebody put out an omnibus of Smith's ...Ace or somebody put out an omnibus of Smith's short fiction some years back, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Worlds-George-O-Smith/dp/0553225324" rel="nofollow"><i>Worlds of George O.</i></a>, in which the author included a number of short memoirs about his career and experiences as a science fiction writer. He's pretty hard on John W. Campbell and L. Ron Hubbard as I recall. You may or may not know that Campbell's wife left him for Smith...more or less over Campbell's obsession with Hubbard's proto-dianetics, but there were other reasons, I guess.Fuzzy Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03802539927743643041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-51622036802475968692012-06-11T20:03:49.185-04:002012-06-11T20:03:49.185-04:00I thought it was the other way around. In childho...I thought it was the other way around. In childhood, I lived for awhile in Marion, IN, site of the VA hospital in the book, so that was a big, big deal. G. O. Smith was an engineer (EE) for auto companies and did defense work in WW II, through much of the Rust Belt, so he'd likely been through town.Roberta Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-51788110721763429882012-06-11T09:03:30.695-04:002012-06-11T09:03:30.695-04:00I read the Smith story years ago under the name &q...I read the Smith story years ago under the name "Highways in Hiding". It's on Gutenberg, of course. <i>Space Plague</i> is actually an abridged version, according to Wikipedia.Fuzzy Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03802539927743643041noreply@blogger.com