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What if a hole in the familiar world leads to a reality no one can fully grasp?
In The Blind Spot, Austin Hall and Homer Eon Flint build a science fiction adventure around a gap in reality. Here, the ordinary rules of space seem to fail, and another world lies close by. The mystery draws people toward a place where understanding no longer feels certain.
Scientific curiosity becomes a kind of courage. Those who seek to understand the blind spot move toward danger, driven by questions they cannot leave alone. Bold scenes keep the mystery moving, while dread gathers around a troubling idea: the world may hold things human beings cannot measure or fully understand.
What you’ll discover
- A gap in reality Explore a place where familiar space gives way to the possibility of another world.
- Curiosity with a cost Follow the urge to understand as it draws people closer to danger.
- Dread beyond the familiar Feel the unease of meeting something that refuses to fit human understanding.
- Bold pulp adventure Enjoy a fast, old-fashioned tale that favors striking scenes over quiet reflection.
- Questions without easy measures Consider what happens when the tools of reason meet something they cannot fully grasp.
Who will love it
Readers who enjoy early science fiction, ghost-story atmosphere and detective chases, and who like puzzles where scientists, skeptics and spiritualists argue over one impossible event in a foggy San Francisco.
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- A stranger who has never seen the sun
- A professor promises proof of the occult
- A house, an old woman, and a bell
- A lawyer, an engineer, and a dying friend
- The ring, the Nervina, and a vanishing
- Clues in clay, a dog, and creeping isolation
- Hobart takes over, and a girl comes from nowhere
- Three days, a committee, and an invisible walker
- What the book is really about
- How the story is told
Who’s who
- Rhamda AvecA tall, ageless stranger who has never seen a cigar or the sun, and who seeks Dr. Holcomb and the blue ring.
- Dr. HolcombA cheerful Berkeley philosophy professor who promises to prove the occult by physical means and then vanishes.
- Harry WendelA hot-tempered young San Francisco lawyer who keeps a dying friend's promise and wears the ring that drains him.
- Hobart FentonHarry's big, practical engineer friend, who believes every wonder has a scientific explanation and sets out to find it.
- Albert JeromeA blunt, honest detective whose hunches lead him into the house on Chatterton Place and keep him there.
- Chick WatsonA former college athlete, wasted by the ring, who begs his friends to carry on the search for the professor.
- The NervinaA bewitchingly lovely woman who begs Harry for the ring and claims to want only to save him.
- Charlotte FentonHobart's sister and Harry's sweetheart, brave and clear-sighted, who wears the ring when it harms men but not her.
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Le Point aveugle
by Austin Hall ; Homer Eon Flint · 1921
A stranger who has never seen a cigar or the sun steps off a San Francisco ferry, and a professor vanishes.
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The Blind Spot is a science fiction adventure by Austin Hall and Homer Eon Flint. It opens in San Francisco in September 1905, when a courteous stranger steps off a tram and asks a cigar clerk how to smoke.
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A stranger who has never seen the sun
On a foggy morning in September 1905, a tall man in a black overcoat steps off a tram at the foot of Market Street in San Francisco. He carries a small satchel of reddish leather. People notice him at once, because he looks old and young together, and the longer you look, the younger he seems.
On the Key Route ferry he stops at the cigar stand and asks to buy a cigar. He says it has a little sister, the cigarette, and he asks the clerk to show him how to use one. The clerk is twenty-one and used to jokers, but one look into the stranger's dark, glowing eyes tells him this is no joke. The man has plainly never seen tobacco before.
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What is The Blind Spot about?
It follows the disappearance of a Berkeley philosophy professor who promises to prove the occult by physical means. A detective, a lawyer and an engineer pursue a mysterious stranger, a woman and a strange blue jewel to find him.
Who is Rhamda Avec?
He is a tall, ageless stranger who arrives in San Francisco in 1905 and has never seen the sun or tobacco. He meets Professor Holcomb, and then the pair vanish from public view. Who he really is drives much of the plot.
What is the Blind Spot in the story?
It is a place in a house on Chatterton Place where people vanish after a blue dot appears on the ceiling, and a bell rings as it ends. Characters argue whether it is spirit, science or a trick.
The author
Austin Hall
1885–1933 · American fantasy writer
Austin Hall (1885–1933) was an American writer who lived in the United States. He wrote short stories and novels, including science fiction, fantasy, and Westerns. He co-wrote The Blind Spot with Homer Eon Flint, published in 1921. His novel The Spot of Life appeared in 1932.
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