The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix

Homer Eon Flint (1889-1924)
Homer Eon Flint was an American writer of pulp sf novels and short stories. His first work was as a screenwriter for silent films in 1912, with a script for "The Joke That Spread", although there is no evidence that the film was actually made. Flint's first published story was "The Planeteer" in All-Story Weekly in 1918. Rumour has it that he died as a result of an involvement in an attempted bank robbery.

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