author
Austin Hall
1882–1933
A cowboy-turned-pulp writer, he brought fast-moving imagination to westerns, fantasy, and early science fiction. He is still best remembered for co-writing the strange and influential novel The Blind Spot.
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 of pulp fiction whose work ranged from westerns to fantasy and science fiction. Reliable reference sources agree that he was active in the early twentieth century and that he began writing after being prompted to finish a story while working as a cowboy.
Science fiction historians describe Hall as a very prolific author, with claims of more than 600 stories across several pulp genres, though westerns made up most of his output. Among his best-known works are Almost Immortal, The Man Who Saved the Earth, People of the Comet, and The Blind Spot, the novel he wrote with Homer Eon Flint.
There is some variation in reference sources about his birth year, with dates including 1880, 1882, and about 1885. What is clear is that he died in 1933, and that his adventurous, magazine-era storytelling helped give early popular science fiction some of its wild energy.