George H. (George Henry) Smith

George Henry Smith was an American writer born on October 27, 1922, in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and he died on May 22, 1996. He is best known for science fiction, though he also wrote other kinds of commercial fiction, including soft-core erotica, and his name is sometimes confused with other authors who published as George H. Smith.

Science-fiction reference sources describe him as a very prolific author who became especially active from the early 1960s onward. He published fiction under his own name and many pseudonyms, including Jan Hudson, Jerry Jason, Hal Stryker, Roy Warren, and, in collaborations with his wife M. Jane Deer, M. J. Deer.

His science fiction ranges from short magazine work in the 1950s to novels such as Doomsday Wing, The Unending Night, The Forgotten Planet, and Druid's World. That mix of speed, variety, and paperback imagination gives his work a distinctly mid-century genre feel: bold concepts, pulpy energy, and stories always ready to move.