author
Garret Smith
1878–1954
Best known for fast-moving pulp adventures, this early science fiction writer brought a journalist’s eye to stories of strange inventions, distant worlds, and looming futures. His fiction appeared widely in popular magazines, helping shape the feel of early magazine SF.
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A hat in the radio ring
by Garret Smith
About the author
Working in the early decades of the 20th century, Garret Smith was an American journalist, newspaper editor, and science fiction writer. Much of his fiction appeared in pulp magazines, especially Argosy, where he published short stories and serialized novels for a mass audience eager for adventure and speculation.
His stories often mixed big imaginative ideas with brisk storytelling, a style that suited the magazine market of his day. Although most of his work first appeared in periodicals, one of his serialized novels, Between Worlds, was later issued as a book in 1929.
Smith is now remembered mainly by readers of early science fiction and pulp history, but his work offers a vivid glimpse of a period when the genre was still taking shape in newspapers and general-interest magazines as much as in books.