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Fiction

PoindexterOglethorpe

(28,039 posts) Tue Nov 1, 2022, 09:30 PM Nov 2022

John E. Stith

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.

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John E. Stith (Original Post) PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2022 OP

Sounds like my kinda book Bayard Nov 2022 #1

Well, there! Bayard Nov 2022 #2

Let me know how you like it. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2022 #3

Bayard

(26,588 posts)

1. Sounds like my kinda book

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Original post)

Wed Nov 2, 2022, 12:11 AM

Nov 2022

I'll look for it. Thanks!

Bayard

(26,588 posts)

2. Well, there!

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Original post)

Wed Nov 2, 2022, 12:23 AM

Nov 2022

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

PoindexterOglethorpe

(28,039 posts)

3. Let me know how you like it.

Reply to Bayard (Reply #2)

Wed Nov 9, 2022, 10:36 PM

Nov 2022

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.

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