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A necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a spread is \\(t |n\\), and so we assume \\(n = rt\\) for some integer \\(r\\) from now on. There is a natural \\(2 - (q^{rt}, q^t, 1)\\) translation design with parallelism associated with each \\((t - 1)\\)-spread, which is a translation plane when \\(r = 2\\). If \\(r > 2\\), a \\((t - 1)\\)-spread \\({\\mathcal S}\\) is called normal (or geometric) if \\({\\mathcal S}\\) induces a spread in any subspace generated by two of its elements. The associated design \\(A({\\mathcal S})\\) is isomorphic to \\(AG(r,q^t)\\) if and only if \\({\\mathcal S}\\) is normal. Normal spreads have many applications in finite geometry from the construction of packings to the classification of certain kinds of flag-transitive affine planes. R. C. Bose pointed out that taking the elements of a normal \\((t - 1)\\)-spread \\({\\mathcal S}\\) as ``points'', the subspaces of dimension \\(2t - 1\\) joining two elements of \\({\\mathcal S}\\) as ``lines'', and the natural inclusion as ``incidence'' yields an isomorphic copy of \\(PG(r - 1, q^t)\\).    In the paper under review the author represents normal spreads by using Grassmannians. Let \\(\\Sigma = PG(rt - 1, q)\\), and let \\({\\mathcal G} \\subseteq \\overline \\Sigma = PG ( {{rt}\\choose{t}} - 1, q)\\) be the Grassmannian of \\((t - 1)\\)-subspaces of \\(\\Sigma\\). Let \\(g\\) be the associated Grassmannian map. If \\({\\mathcal S}\\) is a normal \\((t - 1)\\)-spread of \\(\\Sigma\\), it is shown here that there exists an \\((r^t - 1)\\)-subspace \\(\\Delta\\) of \\(\\overline \\Sigma\\) such that \\(g ({\\mathcal S}) = \\Delta \\cap {\\mathcal G}\\) is an algebraic variety \\({\\mathcal V}_{r,t}\\) which is a \\((q^{t(r - 1)} + q^{t(r - 2)} + \\ldots + q^t + 1)\\)-cap of \\(\\Delta \\cong PG(r^t - 1, q)\\). Moreover, the collineation group of \\(\\Delta\\) stabilizing \\({\\mathcal V}_{r,t}\\) acts 2-transitively on its points. As a corollary it is shown that \\({\\mathcal V}_{r,2}\\) is the union of 3-dimensional elliptic quadrics, and for \\(q\\) even \\({\\mathcal V}_{r,3}\\) is the union of ovoids of the hyperbolic quadric \\(Q^+ (7,q)\\). Now restrict to the case \\(r = 3\\) and \\(t = 2\\), so that the Bose model for \\(PG(2,q^2)\\) is obtained from a normal 1-spread \\({\\mathcal S}\\) of \\(PG(5,q)\\) as previously described. Let \\({\\mathcal T}\\) be the lines of \\({\\mathcal S}\\) corresponding to some Bose subplane of \\(PG(2, q^2)\\). Then it is shown that there is a 5-dimensional subspace \\(S\\) of \\(\\Delta \\cong PG(8,q)\\) such that \\(g({\\mathcal T}) = S \\cap {\\mathcal V}_{3,2}\\) is a Veronesean surface of \\(S\\). From this it follows that \\({\\mathcal V}_{3,2}\\) is partitioned into \\(q^2 - q + 1\\) Veronesean surfaces. Similarly, it is shown that a Hermitian curve of \\(PG(2,q^2)\\) is represented on the variety \\({\\mathcal V}_{3,2}\\) by the intersection of \\({\\mathcal V}_{3,2}\\) with a certain hyperplane of \\(\\Delta\\). If \\(q \\equiv 0,2 \\pmod 3\\), this hyperplane section of \\({\\mathcal V}_{3,2}\\) is a ``unitary'' ovoid of \\(Q^+ (7,q)\\) [see \\textit{W. M. Kantor}, Can. J. Math. 34, 1195-1207 (1982; Zbl 0493.51006) for an alternate description].    The final ingredient of this paper has to do with blocking sets. Let \\(r = 3\\) and consider the Bose model for \\(\\Pi = PG(2, q^t)\\) obtained from a normal \\((t - 1)\\)-spread \\({\\mathcal S}\\) of \\(\\Sigma = PG (3t - 1, q)\\). If \\(L\\) is a \\(t\\)-subspace of \\(\\Sigma\\) not contained in one of the \\((2t - 1)\\)-subspaces joining two elements of \\({\\mathcal S}\\), it is shown that the lines of \\({\\mathcal S}\\) meeting \\(L\\) correspond to a nontrivial blocking set of \\(\\Pi\\). Such blocking sets are called linear. Many known blocking sets, including those of R\u00e9dei-type, turn out to be linear. A class of non-R\u00e9dei minimal blocking sets, which are also linear, has recently been constructed in [\\textit{P. Polito} and \\textit{O. Polverino}, Combinatorica 18, No. 1, 133-137 (1998; Zbl 0910.05017)]. 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