Homer Eon Flint

Homer Eon Flint (1888-1924) was an American pulp science fiction writer whose brief career helped shape the genre in its formative years. He worked as a silent-film scenario writer before turning to fiction, publishing his first story, "The Planeteer," in 1918. His best-known work is The Blind Spot (1921), co-written with Austin Hall, an early portal-fantasy novel blending detective plotting with interdimensional travel. He also wrote the linked novels The Devolutionist and The Emancipatrix (both 1921), featuring the recurring scientist character Dr. Kinney, later reprinted together in book form. Flint's career and life ended abruptly in 1924, when he was found dead at the bottom of a canyon beneath an abandoned taxicab, in circumstances that were never resolved. His son later co-founded the Ancient Astronaut Society, drawing on ideas his father had explored decades earlier in pulp fiction.