A man returning for a high school reunion on a distant colony finds an old flame in trouble—trouble that he's uniquely qualified to deal with.Praise for Reunion on Neverend"One part mystery, one part other worlds adventure, this is a well controlled and thoroughly entertaining joyride right up through its final pages."—Science Fiction Chronicle"A reunion with a sense of wonder awaits us in John Stith's latest SF thriller. What Stith has accomplished in this b...

One man must stop starship hijackers from using an unusual starship to plunder a wealthy colony. Aboard the Redshift, light moves so slowly you can see its passage, and relativistic tricks are an integral part of shipboard life. Flip a light switch and see the room slowly fill with light. Run fast, and the view ahead shifts into blue, and you can create sonic booms. One component of the book is this slow-light thought experiment, a la Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott or Mr. Tomkins in Wonderlan...

Cal Donley regains consciousness on the orbital colony Daedalus. It's a beautiful place, home for more than a million people, but Cal doesn't remember leaving Earth. In fact, he can't remember his name or most of the past dozen years.He's had his memory blanked at a Forget-Me-Now memory erasure shop -- Why? And why is he covered in dried blood that isn't his?Praise for Memory Blank"In the realm of novels, John E. Stith's Memory Blank...is a good solid mystery, a goo...

All life on Earth will die of thirst unless a couple of loners on the run can use a strange time machine to stop a secret project! An action-packed short novel from a Nebula Award nominee.When Meg's mother died in a hospital mishap, that set her father, a scientist—now an angry scientist—on an obsessed journey to develop a tiny time machine (TTM) to save her. Before he could perfect his new device, however, he died in a confrontation with his business part...

By the author of Manhattan Transfer, Redshift Rendezvous, and Naught for HireStar Storm is sent to a remote planet, to show massive force and keep a maverick government in line. Unfortunately, the ship attacks the wrong planet, one equipped with surprisingly powerful weaponry. Star Storm is destroyed, and the only survivors are Medical Officer Nick Sparrow and his AI, Natalie.When Nick reaches the planetary surface in an escape pod, he's the alien invader. Nick struggles to...

When a private eye undergoing a moral crisis uncovers a long-buried starship that's still occupied by nasty aliens, he and woman he loves have to overcome them to survive.Ben Takent is a private eye on a hot, dusty world at the edge of the civilized galaxy. When he's asked to find out who is stealing artifacts from a 10,000-year-old archaeological dig in the desert, he reluctantly takes the case. Then, when it becomes clear that the artifacts are pointing to an ancient alien spacec...

★★★★★ "A new high-concept idea for time travel!" - Reader reviewJosh and Meg and the Tiny Time Machine are back in a brand new book! Meg and Josh, having traveled through time to save the world and her father, now face a showdown with her father's murderous partner as they also try to save her mother! A new adventure from Amazing Stories.John E. Stith is a Nebula Award finalist for Redshift Rendezvous. Aboard the hyperspace liner Redshift, the speed of light is ten meters p...

ALL FOR NAUGHT collects a novella and a novelette: "Naught for Hire" and "Naught Again," both originally published in ANALOG. "Naught for Hire" is a quirky, action-packed, comedy set just a few years from now. Nick Naught, private eye, walks down some strange mean streets as he tries to stay ahead of the killers on his tail and does his best to cope in a world where all the irritations we have with technology are magnified. Gadgets act up in big ways, including voice-operated machines that...

★★★★★ "A new high-concept idea for time travel!" - Reader reviewJosh and Meg and the Tiny Time Machine are back in a brand new book! And this time it's personal. They will travel to the past to save Meg's father, or die trying. A new adventure from Amazing Stories.John E. Stith is a Nebula Award finalist for Redshift Rendezvous. Aboard the hyperspace liner Redshift, the speed of light is ten meters per second.In Tiny Time Machine 1, Meg and Josh, two loners on the r...

A Finalist for the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense, Mainstream Mystery.Dave, an investment counselor with PTSD, survives a blowout that kills his fiancée, Allison.A year later, Dave has found unexpected happiness with Cathy. At Dave's high-school reunion, Dave is stunned that he doesn't recognize anyone there. Cathy, who was previously victimized by a con man, breaks it off. Late that night, Dave gets a text: "How does it feel to be so quickly for...

A riveting exploration of what it means to be an alien...and what it means to be human. Explorers sent deep into the interior of a moon-sized alien visitor may wind up dead before they discover the visitor's secrets. The team includes a woman who received several bionic replacements after an accident and the man she blames for the accident. Could be thought of as Rendezvous with Rama meets A Journey to the Center of the Earth. On the Science Fiction Chronicle best of year list. Chosen by t...

Brother Sammy Wants YOU! In prison. For something you haven't done yet.Aided by a device that provides glimpses of the future, Mike Cavantalo, a loyal government employee, learns that soon he will be on the list of known political criminals. Uncle Sammy wants him.First published in 1984 by Ace Books, SCAPESCOPE is John E. Stith's first novel.Partially set in a future version of the underground NORAD Cheyenne Mountain Complex, where the author once worked as an Air F...