author
Austin Hall
1882–1933
A prolific pulp-era storyteller, he moved easily from western adventures to early science fiction and fantasy. Best known today for imaginative novels like The Blind Spot and People of the Comet, he helped shape the fast-moving magazine fiction of the early 20th century.
3 Audiobooks
The Blind Spot
by Austin Hall, Homer Eon Flint
The Man Who Saved the Earth
by Austin Hall
Where the West begins
by Austin Hall
About the author
Austin Hall was an American writer whose work appeared in the pulp magazines of the early 1900s. Sources available during this search describe him as a writer of westerns, science fiction, and fantasy, and note that he got his start after being asked to write a story while working as a cowboy.
He is especially remembered for his science-fiction novels, including The Blind Spot, written with Homer Eon Flint, as well as People of the Comet and The Spot of Life. Even so, reference sources suggest that western stories made up a large share of his output, showing how comfortably he worked across popular genres.
The dates attached to Hall vary across sources: some list him as circa 1885–1933, while others give 1882–1933 or 1880–1933. Because the records are not fully consistent, the safest summary is that he was active in the early pulp era and died in 1933, leaving behind a body of adventurous fiction that still draws readers of classic speculative storytelling.