Homer Eon Flint
Homer Eon Flint (born Homer Eon Flindt on September 9, 1889 in Albany , Oregon ; died on March 27, 1924 in Sunol , California ) was an American science fiction writer who appeared in pulp magazines between 1916 and 1924 published by Frank Andrew Munsey .
Life
Flint tried his hand at first as a screenwriter, but did not make a breakthrough here because none of his scripts were realized. In 1918, the first story The Planeteer appeared in All-Story Weekly , and others followed. Flint is best known for the novel The Blind Spot , written together with Austin Hall , which appeared in six sequels in Argosy in 1921 . It is about a gate to a parallel world that is discovered in an apartment in San Francisco. A resident from this world kidnaps a scientist, a rescue team follows him into the parallel world, in the end it succeeds in closing the gate and protecting the world from further intruders.
Flint died in 1924 at the age of 34 under circumstances that have not yet been clarified. After Flint's death, Hall wrote a sequel to The Blind Spot , which appeared in 1932 under the title The Spot of Life .
In 2015, the Golden Age of Science Fiction Megapack series published a collection of Flint's published and unpublished stories, along with a biographical essay by Vella Munn, Flint's granddaughter.
bibliography
- Novels
- The Blind Spot (1921, 1951, with Austin Hall )
- Out of the Moon (1923)
- Short stories
- The Planeteer (1918)
- The King of Conserve Island (1918)
- The Lord of Death and The Queen of Life (1919)
- The Man in the Moon (1919)
- The Lord of Death (1919)
- The Queen of Life (1919)
- The Greater Miracle (1920)
- The Devolutionist (1921)
- The Emancipatrix (1921)
- The Nth Man (1928)
- collection
The 26th Golden Age of Science Fiction Megapack (2015). Includes a number of previously unpublished short stories:
- Buy a Liberty Bomb!
- Golden Web Claim
- Luck
- No fool
- Steal Me If You Can
- The Breaker Mends
- The Flying Bloodhound
- The Man Who Took Paris
- The Missing Mondays
- The Money Miler
- The Peacock Vest
- The Perfect Curiosity
- The Planetary Pirate
- The stain in the table
literature
- Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 156.
- Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 443.
- Everett F. Bleiler , John Clute : Flint, Homer Eon. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version from July 25, 2017.
- Vella Munn: Grandfather Lost: The Story of Homer Eon Flint. In: The 26th Golden Age of Science Fiction Megapack . Wildside Press, 2015, ISBN 978-1-4794-0767-5 .
- Donald H. Tuck : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1968. Advent, Chicago 1974, ISBN 0-911682-20-1 , p. 172.
- Noelle Watson, Paul E. Schellinger: Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. St. James Press, Chicago 1991, ISBN 1-55862-111-3 , pp. 283, 353 f ..
Web links
- Works by Flint, Homer Eon in Project Gutenberg ( currently usually not available for users from Germany )
- Homer Eon Flint in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Works by and about Homer Eon Flint at Open Library
- Homer Eon Flint in Fantastic Fiction (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Flint, Homer Eon |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Flindt, Homer Eon (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American science fiction writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1889 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Albany , Oregon |
DATE OF DEATH | March 27, 1924 |
Place of death | Sunol , California |