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EBOOK, THE BLIND SPOT ***


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THE BLIND SPOT
AUSTIN HALL AND HOMER EON FLINT
INTRODUCTION BY FORREST J ACKERMAN


INTRODUCTION
THE LURE AND LORE OF "THE BLIND SPOT"
BY FORREST J ACKERMAN
The Blind Spot opens with the words: "Perhaps it were just as well
to start at the beginning. A mere matter of news." Suppose I use
them in the same sense:
A mere matter of news: The first instalment of this fabulous novel
was featured in Argosy-All-Story-Weekly for May 14, 1921.
Described as a "different" serial, it was introduced by a cover by
Modest Stein. In the foreground was the profile of a girl of
another dimension--ethereal, sensuous, the eternal feminine--the
Nervina of the story. Filmy crystalline earrings swept back over
her bare shoulders. Dominating the background was a huge flaming
yellow ball, like our Sun as seen from the hypothetical Vulcan--
splotched with murky, mysterious globii vitonae. There was an
ancient quay, and emerging from the ultramarine waters about it a
silhouetted metropolis of spires, domes, and minarets. It was
1921, and that generation thus received its first glimpse of the
alien landscape of The Blind Spot and the baroque beauty of an
immortal woman of fantasy fiction.
The authors? Homer Eon Flint was already a reigning favourite with
post-World-War-I enthusiasts of imaginative literature, who had
eagerly devoured his QUEEN OF LIFE and LORD OF DEATH, his KING OF
CONSERVE ISLAND and THE PLANETEER.
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