(The appendix separates actual Theory of Relativity principles from speculation and fabrication.) Science Fiction Book Club selection, HOMer Award winner, Science Fiction Chronicle best of year list, LOCUS recommended Reading List, Nebula Award nominee. One component of the book is this slow-light thought experiment, a la Flatland by Edwin A. Run fast, and the view ahead shifts into blue, and you can create sonic booms. Flip a light switch and see the room slowly fill with light. Aboard the Redshift, light moves so slowly you can see its passage, and relativistic tricks are an integral part of shipboard life. See also: Imaginary Science.One man must stop starship hijackers from using an unusual starship to plunder a wealthy colony. But after 2000 he was silent for many years, returning in 2020 with a number of Flash Fiction stories for the 'Futures' department of Nature and the Time Gate novel Tiny Time Machine ( 2021). Manhattan Transfer ( 1993), in which an alien force matter-transmits the island heart of New York elsewhere for reasons unknown, Reunion on Neverend ( 1994), a crime thriller, and Reckoning Infinity ( 1997), about the discovery in space of an Alien artefact, continued to demonstrate considerable storytelling energy. Within this intriguingly presented environment, a murder mystery, a hijack and other events occur but the appeal of the novel lies in the playing-out of the concept – or Thought Experiment – at its heart. More impressive than any of these is Redshift Rendezvous ( 1990), set on a Faster-than-Light starship travelling through a version of Hyperspace in which the speed of light is so low (22mph ) that Relativity effects are visible in everyday situations. Death Tolls ( 1987) is a detective mystery set on a terraformed Mars (see also Terraforming), and Deep Quarry ( 1989), set on a planet far from the solar system (to which Stith had previously restricted himself), pits a private eye against various mysteries in a hard-boiled style. Memory Blank ( 1986) places a classic sf protagonist – a hero with Amnesia – on an L-5 Space Habitat (see Lagrange Point). His first novel, Scapescope ( 1984) – which is Hard SF like all his work – uses his work experience at the NORAD Cheyenne Mountain Complex to extrapolate on the nature of a defense complex in that location two centuries hence. (1947- ) US software engineering manager and author who began to publish sf with 'Early Winter' in Fantastic for July 1979.

Redshift rendezvous