“Pandora’s Millions”, in the July, 1945, issue of Astounding Science Fiction, is one of the twelve stories comprising George O. Smith’s Venus Equilateral collection.
The other eleven stories include…
“QRM—Interplanetary” – October, 1942
“Calling the Empress” – June, 1943
“Recoil” – November, 1943
“Off the Beam” – February, 1944
“The Long Way” – April, 1944
“Beam Pirate” – October, 1944
“Firing Line” – December, 1944
“Special Delivery” – March, 1945
“Mad Holiday”
“The External Triangle”
“Epilogue: Identity” – November, 1945
…all of which, with the exception of “Mad Holiday” and “The External Triangle”, originally appeared in Astounding as well.
William Timmins’ cover for the July, 1945 issue of the magazine clearly shows the name “Venus Equilateral” at the station’s entrance, the station itself being an “interplanetary communications hub located at the L4 Lagrangian point of the Sun-Venus system”.
By profession an electronics engineer whose forte was “hard” science fiction, George O. Smith, born in April of 1911, died on May 27, 1981. His obituary, from the June 5, 1981, issue of The New York Times, appears below.
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References
George O. Smith – bibliography at The Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Venus Equilateral – at Wikipedia
Venus Equilateral (story collection) – at Wikipedia