author
Homer Eon Flint
1888–1924
An early pulp science-fiction writer, this Oregon-born author mixed wild imagination with the fast pace of the magazine era. His stories helped shape the adventurous, idea-packed feel of early American science fiction.
4 Audiobooks
The Blind Spot
by Austin Hall, Homer Eon Flint
The Emancipatrix
by Homer Eon Flint
The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life
by Homer Eon Flint
The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix
by Homer Eon Flint
About the author
Born in Albany, Oregon, in 1888, he wrote under the name Homer Eon Flint and became one of the lively voices of early pulp science fiction. He reportedly began working as a silent-film scenarist in 1912, and by 1918 he had broken into magazine fiction with "The Planeteer," published in All-Story Weekly.
Flint is especially remembered for his energetic science-fiction tales, including the Dr. Kinney stories and, with Austin Hall, the novel The Blind Spot. His work appeared in the great adventure magazines of the day and blended big speculative ideas with the cliffhanger momentum that made pulp fiction so hard to put down.
His life was short: he died in California in 1924. Even so, later reprints and continued interest from science-fiction historians have kept his work in view, and he is still seen as one of the genre's early pioneers.