Reviews of the Works of John E. Stith
| Title | View | |||||
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| Redshift Rendezvous |
"The elementary changes have now been rung, but there is probably further scope for intriguing time-dilation plots. One such is Redshift Rendezvous by John E. Stith." |
1995-01-01 | 1994 | Encyclopedia of Science Fiction | unknown | view |
| Redshift Rendezvous |
"One fine example is John Stith's Redshift Rendezvous, a hard SF mystery in which the theory of relativity holds one of the main clues to solving the crime." (in article on SF trends and genres, pg. 10) |
1994-12-01 | 1994 | SF Writer's Market Place and Sourcebook | Peter Heck | view |
| Reunion on Neverend |
"The hero, Lan Dillion, is a secret agent who has to lie about what he does for a living when he returns to the world of Neverend, where people live entirely underground, for a school reunion." |
1994-12-01 | December 1994 | Analog | Tom Easton | view |
| Manhattan Transfer |
"Some ideas are just too good to pass up... the pleasure is in the nonstop action and the problem the characters must solve." |
1994-11-01 | November 1994 | New York Review of Science Fiction | Leonard Rysdyk | view |
| Manhattan Transfer |
"John E. Stith's Manhattan Transfer is great fun for those who like a puzzle in their science fiction." |
1994-10-01 | Oct/Nov 1994 | Uncle Hugo's SF Bookstore newsletter | Don Blyly | view |
| Manhattan Transfer |
"[Stith can take] a mind-stretching concept and push it to its uttermost limits, all the while making the reader feel anyone could easily encompass each new development and twist, thanks to Stith's clear descriptive prose and keen visual sense." |
1994-09-01 | September 1994 | Science Fiction Age | Paul Di Filippo | view |
| Reunion on Neverend |
"A reunion with a sense of wonder awaits us in John Stith's latest SF thriller. What Stith has accomplished in this book is a sprightly, fast-paced humorous romance." |
1994-09-01 | September 1994 | Science Fiction Age | Paul Di Filippo | view |
| Reunion on Neverend |
"Reunion on Neverend is a fast-paced, fun thriller, chasing love and interplanetary thieves." |
1994-08-28 | 28 August 1994 | Denver Post | Fred Cleaver | view |
| Reunion on Neverend |
"As quick-witted as his previous Manhattan Transfer...a thriller couched in science fiction terms, with high-tech equipment and exotic surveillance devices." |
1994-08-01 | Date unknown | Chicago Tribune | David E. Jones | view |
| Reunion on Neverend |
"absorbing, fast-paced action and witty dialogue." |
1994-07-01 | July 1994 | Booklist | Carl Hays | view |
| 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." |
1994-07-01 | July 1994 | Science Fiction Chronicle | Don D'Ammassa | view |
| Manhattan Transfer |
"That sense of wonder--the feeling of transcendence, of glimpsing a cosmic perspective--also can be found in the novels of John E. Stith." |
1994-06-30 | 30 June 1994 | Now: Toronto's Weekly News and Entertainment Voice | Robert J. Sawyer | view |
| Reunion on Neverend |
"An undercover investigator returns to the subterranean colony of his youth and rescues his high school sweetheart." |
1994-06-01 | 1 June 1994 | Kirkus | unknown | view |
| Manhattan Transfer |
"Who says good, solid, imaginative science fiction is getting harder to find these days? Here is a book that has it all...Terrific story! Creative, fast-paced, tightly plotted. A great read!" |
1994-05-01 | May 1994 (no. 42) | Lan's Lantern | Lynn McMillen | view |
| Manhattan Transfer |
"John Stith is, I believe, one of the most under-rated SF authors to appear in a long while....Despite its length (380 pages) it reads like a short story and the action does not lag." |
1994-03-01 | March 1994 | Ottawa SF Society Statement | Duncan MacGregor | view |
| Manhattan Transfer |
"Stith writes a fascinating novel filled with a variety of aliens and alien science." |
1994-02-01 | February 1994 | Voice of Youth Advocates | John O. Christensen | view |
| Manhattan Transfer |
"How can you possibly resist?... Superscience SF in the classic vein, fast-moving, heroic...loaded with sensawunda. You'll love it." |
1994-02-01 | February 1994 | Analog | Tom Easton | view |
| Reunion on Neverend |
"You won't want to miss." |
1994-01-30 | 30 October 1994 | Rocky Mountain News | Mark Graham | view |
| Manhattan Transfer |
"A rarity: a science-fiction novel of adventure and meaning... If you've ever thought that something was missing from the elder days of wonder, here is what you've been missing." |
1993-11-01 | Oct/Nov 1993 | FOSFAX | Joseph T. Major | view |
| Manhattan Transfer |
"A page turning adventure with plot twists I didn't expect, plenty of hard science ideas I did expect, a little humor, and a little sadness....the boldness and ability to do it with originality and verve. John Stith succeeds!" |
1993-09-30 | Sept/Oct 1993 | Interdimensional Journal | P. J. Southam | view |
| Manhattan Transfer |
"Considerable ingenuity...Think of it as a visually spectacular movie...and a really outstanding, imaginative, and professional production staff and special effects crew working to bring off the big set-pieces and guarantee the thrills." |
1993-09-01 | September 1993 | Locus | Russell Letson | view |
| Manhattan Transfer |
"One of the best science-fiction novels I've read in years. Stith has always been a master of hard science fiction. Unless there is a real surprise, I vote this the best science-fiction novel of the year." |
1993-08-22 | 22 August 1993 | Rocky Mountain News | Mark Graham | view |
| Manhattan Transfer |
"Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke became the first 'deans' of hard SF. A generation later, the team of Niven and Pournelle set their own standards. Stith's Manhattan Transfer reads almost like a collaboration of the four...a truly ambitious novel." |
1993-08-08 | 8 August 1993 | Amarillo Sunday News-Globe | Tom Allston | view |
| Manhattan Transfer |
"Fascinating, intelligent account of people--some ordinary, some extraordinary--struggling to define and confront events that are beyond anything they have dared to imagine. One of the better surprise endings to come down the cosmos in light-years." For the full review, see this link. |
1993-08-02 | 2 August 1993 | Chicago Tribune | David E. Jones | view |
| Manhattan Transfer |
"a wild premise artfully built on perfectly plausible science." |
1993-08-01 | 1 August 1993 | Staten Island Advance | unknown | view |