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Reviews of the Works of John E. Stith
| Date | Title | Publication | Issue | Reviewer | Body |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat, 1990-11-03 | Redshift Rendezvous | Toronto Star | 3 November 1990 | John North |
"The entertaining descriptions of the effect of relativity and light speed on the perceptions enliven this convincing tale." |
| Sun, 1990-10-21 | Redshift Rendezvous | New York Times Book Review | 21 October 1990 | Gerald Jonas |
"Fascinating" |
| Sat, 1990-09-01 | Redshift Rendezvous | Locus | September 1990 | Dan Chow |
"Redshift Rendezvous represents an ingenious exploration of an idea in a manner that only science fiction can allow." |
| Wed, 1990-08-01 | Redshift Rendezvous | Reading for Pleasure | No. 12 | Cindy Bartorillo |
"With one stroke, John Stith drags the theory of relativity out of the lab and dumps it right in our laps. Riveting hard science background." |
| Sun, 1990-07-01 | "Naught for Hire" | Science Fiction Review | Summer 1990 | Dean Wesley Smith |
"The July issue [of ANALOG] has a great story by John E. Stith called 'Naught for Hire.'" Later Note: "Naught for Hire" won the 1991 HOMer Award for Best Science Fiction Novella, made the Locus 1991 Recommended Reading List, and won 3rd place novella for the 1991 Analog Analytical Laboratoy Award. |
| Sun, 1990-07-01 | Redshift Rendezvous | Isaac Asimov's SF Magazine | July 1990 | Baird Searles |
"A high-techie's delight." |
| Sun, 1990-07-01 | Redshift Rendezvous | Bakka Bookie Sheet, The | Summer 1990 | unknown |
"Stith has turned in a truly interesting hard sf novel. Everyone who has complained about the lack of scientific speculation in recent fiction owes it to themselves to pick up on this one." |
| Sun, 1990-07-01 | Redshift Rendezvous | Drood Review of Mystery | July 1990 | Ed Blachman |
"Its best parts... come from Stith's careful and amusing working-out of interstellar travel by means of a space in which the speed of light is 10 meters per second." |
| Sun, 1990-07-01 | Redshift Rendezvous | Science Fiction Review | Summer 1990 | Gene DeWeese |
"The hardest part about reviewing Redshift Rendezvous is trying to figure out how to explain why it's as good as it is without giving away too much of the plot." |
| Sun, 1990-07-01 | Redshift Rendezvous | FOSFAX | July 1990 | Timothy Lane |
"This is a very fine novel of mystery and suspense, in which hard-science happens to play an important role. This is another book I can recommend highly." |
| Sun, 1990-07-01 | Redshift Rendezvous | Visions | ?? 1990 | Victor Valdez |
"Redshift Rendezvous contains an imaginative spark that makes science skip, hop, and do cart-wheels." |
| Fri, 1990-06-15 | Redshift Rendezvous | Library Journal | 15 June 1990 | unknown |
"[Redshift Rendezvous is] a unique, fascinating hard SF novel. Recommended." |
| Sun, 1990-06-10 | Redshift Rendezvous | Rocky Mountain News | 10 June 1990 | Mark Graham |
"The novel is heavy on the science, but this does not detract from Stith's gift for character development. [Stith] gets better with each book." |
| Fri, 1990-06-01 | Redshift Rendezvous | Science Fiction Chronicle | June 1990 | Don D'Ammassa |
"Mystery and adventure against a fascinating hard science background. This is without question Stith's best work to date." |
| Fri, 1990-06-01 | Redshift Rendezvous | Raymond's Reviews | June 1990 | Eric Raymond |
"Hard-SF and suspense/action fans will have a ball with Redshift Rendezvous." |
| Fri, 1990-06-01 | Redshift Rendezvous | Lan's Lantern | No. 32 | George J. Laskowsji, Jr. |
"High energy reading; I found it difficult to put down." |
| Fri, 1990-06-01 | Redshift Rendezvous | Rave Reviews | June/July 1990 | John J. Pierce |
"Who says they don't write science fiction like they used to? It's a hard science fiction fan's delight from beginning to end." |
| Fri, 1990-06-01 | Redshift Rendezvous | Analog | June 1990 | Tom Easton |
"If you love writers who play techy games with reality...pick this one up." |
| Wed, 1990-05-30 | Redshift Rendezvous | DASFAx | May 1990 | Don C. Thompson |
"Somebody at Ace should be ashamed of himself--first for delaying the publication of John Stith's Redshift Rendezvous from February to June 1990 and then for not publishing it in hardback." |
| Sun, 1990-05-27 | Redshift Rendezvous | Denver Post | 27 June 1990 | Don C. Thompson |
"In our literature of ideas it isn't often that an author com |