John E. Stith is an American science fiction and mystery author, known for the scientific rigor he brings to adventure and mystery stories. Redshift Rendezvous, a Nebula Award nominee, is a murder mystery set aboard a space ship traveling through hyperspace, where the speed of light is ten meters per second, so relativistic effects occur at running speed. The solution respects the laws of physics. Manhattan Transfer, a novel about an alien abduction of the entire borough of Manhattan, was a Seiun Award nominee in Japan. Stith's Nick Naught is a detective with a sense of humor in a dystopian future. He first appeared in Analog Magazine and his exploits have been reprinted in the collection, All For Naught. Stith's other short fiction has appeared in Amazing Stories, Nature, and Dragon. His work has been translated into French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Russian. His novels have been bestsellers on Locus and Amazon. He has lived in Colorado Springs since the 1970s.
Novels
Scapescope
Memory Blank
Death Tolls
Deep Quarry
Redshift Rendezvous
Manhattan Transfer
Reunion on Neverend
Reckoning Infinity
Pushback
Collections
All for Naught
Major Awards
1988 Colorado Authors' League Top Hand Award Winner, best adult fiction original paperback, for Death Tolls
1989 Colorado Authors' League Top Hand Award Winner, best adult fiction original paperback, for Deep Quarry
1990 Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel, for Redshift Rendezvous
1990 Analog Analytical Laboratory 3rd Place winner for the novella Naught for Hire
1990 HOMer Award winner for the novella Naught for Hire
1990 HOMer Award winner for the novelRedshift Rendezvous
1992 HOMer Award winner for the novelette Naught Again
1993 Rockies Award Winner for best SF novel of 1993, for Manhattan Transfer
1994 HOMer Award winner for the novel Reunion on Neverend
1994 Seiun Award Nominee for best foreign novel, for Manhattan Transfer
1997 Colorado Authors' League Top Hand Award Winner, best genre novel, for Reckoning Infinity
1997 New York Public Library—List of Best Books for Young Adult, for Reckoning Infinity
1997 La Tour Eiffel/Eiffel Tower Science Fiction Book Prize Nominee for Manhattan Transfer
2019 Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense Nominee for Pushback in Mainstream Mystery/Suspense
Television Appearances
1987 Science Fiction * Science Fact, National PBS one-hour, live special with Ben Bova, Arthur C. Clarke, Charles Sheffield, John E. Stith, G. Harry Stine and NASA planner Jesco von Puttkammer.
1993 Prisoners of Gravity Season 4 episode 16, Mystery/SF. Episode description: a look at the cross-over between mystery and science fiction, with guests P. D. James, John E. Stith, Sean Stewart, Vernor Vinge, Martin H. Greenberg, Maxim Jakubowski, Garfield and Judith Reeves-Stevens, Sharyn McCrumb, Mike Resnick, Beth Meacham, and Jane Yolen.
Video Appearances
featuring an excerpt from Tiny Time Machine and brief descriptions of a few favorite science-fiction books
