John E. Stith's blog

The COSine convention is coming up in two weeks in Colorado Springs. The guests of Honor include Jim Butcher, Connie Willis, and Courtney Willis, as well as Bryan and Baxter. See you there!

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In REDSHIFT RENDEZVOUS, aboard the REDSHIFT hyperspace craft, light travels at ten meters per second. Now, researchers have been able to photograph a trillion frames per second, so they can watch light travel slowly into a liquid-filled pop bottle. It's pretty amazing video, and they postulate how this could be used to see around corners. TED Talk on YouTube.

Here's another new piece of artwork to use in re-issuing DEATH TOLLS, which is set on a partially terraformed Mars. The artist is Charlie Pharis and the piece is called "Hard Crash." ReAnimus Press will publish it in 2016 or 2017. It was originally published in 1987 by Ace Books, in 1988 in Italy, and in 1996 in Russia..

I've signed a new contract with ReAnimus Press to reprint my backlist during 2016 and 2017.

For a time, John E. Stith novels are going to be more difficult to buy.

I've ended my reprint contract with Wildside Press, and I plan to pull my titles from Amazon Kindle this month. This is in preparation for moving to a new press with all new covers, some content cleanup, and a lack of DRM on all titles, to be as friendly as possible to readers. Eventually all my novels will be back in print. I'll announce more about the schedule here and on my Facebook page and on my Twitter feed.

Here's the new cover for MANHATTAN TRANSFER, done by Julian Aguilar Faylona.

The update should be live for the Amazon Kindle now. The Wildside Press reprint editions, which include trade paperback and additional ebook markets, will be released by mid June. The novel was originally published in 1993 by Tor Books and the Science Fiction Book Club.

The graphic design was done by Kavin King.

Here's the new cover for DEEP QUARRY.

The update should be live for the Amazon Kindle now. The Wildside Press reprint editions, which include trade paperback and additional ebook markets, will be released by mid June. The novel was originally published in 1989 by Ace Books.

Earlier, I posted the underlying artwork, done by Takumer Humma in a piece called "Time Displacement." The graphic design was done by Kavin King.

Takumer Homma's work can be found at www.takumer.com

Here's the new cover for RECKONING INFINITY.

The update should go live for the Amazon Kindle any time now. The Wildside Press editions, which include trade paperback and additional ebook markets, will be released by mid May.

Earlier, I posted the underlying artwork, done by Jorge Abalo Budczinski in a piece called "Off the Shore." The cover also features work by Kavin King, who not only did the graphic design but also the additions to the cover artwork.

Here's more artwork for a planned book cover update. This one is "Off the Shore" by Jorge Abalo Budczinski, for use with RECKONING INFINITY, which is set in a bio-engineered environment that's part machinery and part biological.