The Blind Spot
OCLC 7329780 | | |
| Followed by | The Spot of Life | |
|---|---|---|
The Blind Spot is a science fiction novel by American writers Austin Hall and Homer Eon Flint. The novel was originally serialized in six parts in the magazine Argosy beginning in May 1921. It was first published in book form in 1951 by Prime Press in an edition of 74,200 copies, though fewer than 800 were actually bound, and the remainder are assumed lost. The sequel, The Spot of Life, was written by Hall alone.
Plot introduction
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The novel concerns an interdimensional doorway between worlds.
Reception
In In Search of Wonder, Damon Knight is critical of the novel's coherence, scientific accuracy and style:[1]
The Blind Spot, by Austin Hall and Homer Eon Flint, is an acknowledged classic of fantasy, first published in 1921; much praised since then, several times reprinted, venerated by connoisseurs - all despite the fact that the book has no recognizable vestige of merit.
Dave Langford reviewed The Blind Spot for White Dwarf #91, and stated that "You can enjoy spotting the howlers; in this dotty pulp melodrama and trying to work out what'll happen next, information quite evidently hidden from the authors ..."[4]
References
- ^ Knight, Damon (1967). In Search of Wonder. Chicago: Advent.
- ^ "Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf", Galaxy Science Fiction, January 1952, p.119.
- Astounding Science Fiction, September 1951, p.124
- ^ Langford, Dave (July 1987). "Critical Mass". White Dwarf (91). Games Workshop: 11.
- Everett F. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years, Kent State University Press, 1990, p.328
Sources
- Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 532.
- ISBN 0-312-13486-X.
- ISBN 0-911682-20-1.
External links
The full text of The Blind Spot (Hall and Flint) at Wikisource
