John E. Stith

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John E. Stith (born July 30, 1947 in Boulder , Colorado ) is an American writer, best known for writing science fiction and crime novels .

Life

Stith grew up largely in Alamogordo , New Mexico . His father worked as a scientist at the White Sands test site , and his mother was a piano teacher. According to the father's job, the family moved frequently, when Stith was in third grade they moved to Sunspot, New Mexico, where the National Solar Observatory is located on Sacramento Peak, then back to Alamogordo, and as Stith was in eighth grade and his father worked at the Kitt Peak Observatory in Tucson , Arizona . When he graduated from high school in 1965, they were back in Alamogordo.

Stith studied physics , graduated from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor's degree , and then did his military service in the Air Force, where he was stationed at the Cheyenne Mountain Complex of NORAD and at Clear Air Force Station , an early warning station in Alaska . In 1972 he worked as Mission Operations Controller for the Space Telescope Copernicus at the Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA in Maryland , from 1973 as a software engineer and manager at various companies, including System Development Corporation , Wyle Laboratories, Aeronutronic Ford and Kaman Sciences.

During this time, Stith made occasional attempts at writing, but it wasn't until 1977 that he began to write regularly. In 1979 the short story Early Winter appeared in Fantastic magazine and in 1984 his first novel Scapescope . From the beginning, Stith was considered to be a representative of “hard” , technically and scientifically oriented science fiction.

In 1991 his novel Redshift Rendezvous was recognized as best novel and the short story Naught for Hire as Best Novella at the HOMer Awards . Redshift Rendezvous was also nominated for best novel for the Nebula Award and Locus Award .

Stith lives in Colorado Springs .

Works (selection)

Scapescope (1984)
In the future, the NORAD Cheyenne Mountain Underground Complex has been sold and is now used as a shelter for a dissident group. The protagonist Mike Cavantalo is a loyal employee who, through the eponymous Scapescope , reveals the most likely future that he will be wanted as a political criminal . If he can't change the future.
Memory Blank (1986)
Cal Donley is found on Daedalus , a space colony positioned at the L-5 long range point similar to the concepts of Gerard K. O'Neill , without remembering how he got there. He doesn't remember his name either. His wife is said to be a strange stranger, and his wristop computer gives off clever sayings, but helps him to find the causes of his amnesia .

bibliography

Novels
  • Scapescope (1984)
  • Memory Blank (1986)
  • Death Tolls (1987)
  • Deep Quarry (1989)
  • Redshift Rendezvous (1990)
  • Manhattan Transfer (1993)
  • Reunion on Neverend (1994)
  • Reckoning Infinity (1997)
collection
  • All for Naught (2005)
Short stories
  • Early Winter (1979)
  • Planet 7 (1980)
  • Vacuum Dispatch (1982)
  • Double Vision (1982)
  • Simon Sidekick (1984)
  • Last Words (1986)
  • Doing Time (1987)
  • Redshift Runaway (1988)
  • Little Black Book (1988)
  • Naught for Hire (1990)
  • Naught Again (1992)
  • One Giant Step (1993)
  • Going Up (excerpt) (1993)
  • When I Was Your Age (2000)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John E. Stith's Biography , accessed June 19, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Stith, John E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Boulder , Colorado