Reviews of the Works of John E. Stith

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Manhattan Transfer

"A science-fiction connoiseur's delight."

1993-03-19 19 September 1993 Gazette Telegraph Pula Davis 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."

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1993-08-02 2 August 1993 Chicago Tribune David E. Jones view
Manhattan Transfer

"A rousing adventure."

1993-08-01 August 1993 University City Review Henry Leon Lazarus view
Manhattan Transfer

"a wild premise artfully built on perfectly plausible science."

1993-08-01 1 August 1993 Staten Island Advance unknown view
Manhattan Transfer

"Furthers his reputation as an up-and-coming hard-science writer. Many scenes and situations that inspire that much-coveted 'sense of wonder.' Exciting, thought-provoking summer reading."

1993-07-18 18 July 1993 San Diego Union Michael Berry view
Manhattan Transfer

"Another blockbuster idea. A big book of spectacle, adventure and mystery, as Stith does a wonderful job of drawing out the suspense and twisting the plot in new directions."

1995-06-27 27 June 1993 Denver Post Fred Cleaver view
Manhattan Transfer

"Intriguing."

1993-06-07 7 June 1993 Publishers Weekly unknown view
Manhattan Transfer

"Narrative momentum and plot nudges to keep readers guessing and turning the pages."

1993-05-15 15 May 1993 Kirkus Reviews unknown view
Manhattan Transfer

"Entertainingly breakneck pace and considerable power at inventing techno-epic detail."

1993-05-01 May 1993 Locus Edward Bryant view
Manhattan Transfer

"This is science fiction on a grand scale, full of stunning visuals of New York City being ripped from the surface of the Earth, vast starships, and intriguing extraterrestrials."

1993-03-01 Author quote Author quote Robert J. Sawyer view
Manhattan Transfer

"Manhattan Transfer has the makings of a stunningly visual movie. The opening scenes of Manhattan being severed from its steel and granite moorings by daunting alien lasery would itself be worth the price of admission."

1993-03-01 Author quote Author quote Paul Levinson view
Manhattan Transfer

"When I read Manhattan Transfer, all I could keep thinking was 'blockbuster movie!'"

1993-03-01 Author quote Author quote Mike Resnick view
Manhattan Transfer

"Stith's gripping pace, penetrating insight into human nature, and well-crafted turn of phrase make Manhattan Transfer a 'can't turn it down' book."

1993-03-01 Spring 1993 Journeys Eva Presley view
Manhattan Transfer

"I would dearly love to see--on the biggest screen possible--the scene in which the aliens dome Manhattan, rip it from the bedrock, and lift it into space."

1993-02-25 Author quote Author quote Kevin O'Donnell Jr. view
Manhattan Transfer

"Manhattan Transfer is a visual feast of exotic locales and strange situations recapturing the sense of wonder of the best science fiction."

1993-02-17 Author quote Author quote Kevin J. Anderson view
Manhattan Transfer

"Manhattan Transfer starts off with a bang and seldom lets up the pace. It succeeds as a chronicle of the human spirit. It is Highly Recommended."

1993-02-01 February 1993 Circle of Janus Greg Dunn view
Manhattan Transfer

"With Manhattan Transfer he's outdone himself. It's a book filled with invention, excitement, and entirely believable characters."

1992-12-01 Author quote Author quote Joel Rosenberg view
Manhattan Transfer

"This is the kind of story that brought me to SF. Put a little fun back into your life and read Manhattan Transfer."

1992-12-01 December 1992 Science Fiction Chronicle Don D'Ammassa view
Manhattan Transfer

"Manhattan Transfer is filled with interesting ideas and a knockout climax! It is the type of novel that originally got me reading science fiction."

1992-10-30 Author quote Author quote Kevin J. Anderson view
Manhattan Transfer

"Welcome back to the Golden Age! John E. Stith's Manhattan Transfer is exactly the kind of novel that hooked most of us on SF in the first place: a grand sense-of-wonder premise; a breakneck pace; dozens of really neat ideas per chapter."

1992-10-03 Author quote Author quote Robert J. Sawyer view
Manhattan Transfer

"Manhattan Transfer has everything good SF demands: real human beings, true aliens, awesome technology, and a conflict of staggering importance. This one's going to win John Stith a lot of new fans."

1992-09-27 Author quote Author quote Kevin O'Donnell Jr. view
Manhattan Transfer

"John E. Stith continues in the re-birth of a science-lover's science fiction."

1992-09-26 Author quote Author quote Paul Levinson view

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