John E. Stith

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

He's a writer, and I just finished Manhattan Transfer by him. Aliens take Manhattan Island and put it on a huge spaceship, along with other cities from other planets. New Yorkers are not about to take that unchallenged, and so things happen. It's excellent.

What I like best is that Stith doesn't write to a formula, as so many seem to do.

His Redshift Rendezvous is also amazing, and I highly recommend it.

[Bayard]

1. Sounds like my kinda book

I'll look for it. Thanks!

[Bayard]

2. Well, there!

$4.63 for a clean, used hardback on ebay. Ordered.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Let me know how you like it.

His most recent book, Pushback, is a straight-forward mystery. I read it, kept on expecting a science-fictional aspect to pop up, and none ever did. It's very well worth reading, even so.

I asked him about that when I saw him last month at Mile Hi Con in Denver (one of the science fiction cons I attend every year) and he remarked that most of his reading is mystery novels.