John E. Stith
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Science fiction
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author, known for the scientific rigor he brings to adventure and mystery stories.
Redshift Rendezvous, a Nebula Award
Nebula Award
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nominee, is a murder mystery
Mystery fiction
Mystery fiction is a loosely-defined term.1.It is often used as a synonym for detective fiction or crime fiction— in other words a novel or short story in which a detective investigates and solves a crime mystery. Sometimes mystery books are nonfiction...
set aboard a space ship travelling through hyperspace, where the speed of light is ten meters per second, so relativistic effects occur at running speed. The solution respects the laws of physics. Manhattan Transfer, a novel about an alien abduction of the entire borough of Manhattan
Manhattan
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, was a Seiun Award
Seiun Award
The is a Japanese science fiction award for the best science fiction published in Japan during the preceding year, as voted by attendees of the Japan Science Fiction Convention. "Seiun" is the Japanese word for "nebula", but the award is not related to the American Nebula Award. It was named after...
nominee in Japan
Japan
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Stith's Nick Naught is a detective with a sense of humor in a dystopian future. He first appeared in Analog Magazine and his exploits (Naught for Hire and Naught Again) have been reprinted in the collection, All For Naught. Stith's other short fiction has appeared in Amazing Stories
Amazing Stories
Amazing Stories was an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction...
, Nature
Nature (journal)
Nature, first published on 4 November 1869, is ranked the world's most cited interdisciplinary scientific journal by the Science Edition of the 2010 Journal Citation Reports...
, and Dragon
Dragon (magazine)
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A webisode
Webisode
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series of Naught for Hire is in development with Paramount Digital in the Summer of 2011. The screenplay is by series producer Jeffrey Berman and John E. Stith. Ben Browder
Ben Browder
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is set to star and be executive producer
Executive producer
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His work has been translated into French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Russian.
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)
External links
- The John E. Stith web site
- The Official Naught for Hire web site
- The John E. Stith Facebook Public Figures page
- The Naught for Hire Facebook page
- Naught PI Agency, a Naught for Hire fan community
- Naught for Hire on IMDB