Austin Hall

Austin Hall ( Eng. Austin Hall , 1886-1933) is an American writer who has worked in the mass genres of journal literature. He wrote, according to his own statement in one of the interviews, more than 600 works under a variety of pseudonyms , which he did not bother to list; perhaps Austin Hall is also a pseudonym. It is known that he lived and died in San Jose , California .

Austin Hall has been featured in leading global literary magazines, including Argosy and All-Story . Mostly he wrote westerns , however in our time the main references to him as an author are related to early journalistic fiction.

The first science fiction short story, Almost Immortal, he published in the All-Story on October 7, 1916. In the issue of the same magazine dated June 30, 1917, the story “The Rebel Soul” appeared, during which Hall wrote the whole novel “In Infinity” (“Into the Infinite”, 1919).

In 1921, Argosy (starting on May 14) published Austin Hall's most famous work, the novel between the dimensions of The Blind Spot, co-authored by Homer Aeon Flint . Hall was dissatisfied with his co-authorship and, after Flint's death, published a sequel to The Spot of Life (1932), which was not an independent success.

Another Hall novel, The People of the Comet, was published in 1923 in Weird Tales magazine.

Austin Hall's works have been reprinted several times in Amazing Stories in the early years of the magazine.