Homer Eon Flint

Born as Homer Eon Flindt in Oregon, and later publishing as Homer Eon Flint, he was an American writer of early pulp science fiction. Sources agree that he wrote short stories and novels for magazines such as All-Story Weekly and Argosy All-Story Weekly, and that he also worked in silent films as a scenarist beginning in the 1910s.

Flint is best remembered for inventive, idea-heavy fiction from the late 1910s and early 1920s, including "The Planeteer" and the novel The Blind Spot, written with Austin Hall. Reference sources describe him as an early, important voice in magazine science fiction, with stories noted for their energetic concepts and adventurous style.

He died in 1924, still young, which left his career strikingly brief. Even so, his reputation lasted, and later science fiction reference works and bibliographies continued to single him out as a notable pulp pioneer.