From 74375.235@compuserve.com Wed Jun 7 17:45 MET 1995 Received: from arl-img-3.compuserve.com (arl-img-3.compuserve.com [198.4.7.3]) by konrad.lysator.liu.se (8.6.11/8.6.11) with ESMTP id RAA19664 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 17:45:11 +0200 Received: by arl-img-3.compuserve.com (8.6.10/5.950515) id LAA07947; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 11:44:54 -0400 Date: 07 Jun 95 11:44:10 EDT From: "John E. Stith" <74375.235@compuserve.com> To: "\"Mats \\hrman\"" Subject: Re: Author Information Message-ID: <950607154409_74375.235_CHN75-1@CompuServe.COM> Content-Type: text Content-Length: 5450 Status: RO Dear Mats, Thanks very much for your email about adding me to the Linkoping WWW page. (My apologies for the lack of international characters and accent marks in this message. I know CIS lets us use them now, but I haven't yet figured it out.) Following is my biography/bibliography. It's probably more than you need, so please feel free to omit any information you don't need, Thanks again, and thanks for providing such a good resource on-line. John John E. Stith Novels SCAPESCOPE (Ace, 1984) set in the NORAD underground complex. A man content with the status quo sees a glimpse of the future, saying he'll be on the political criminal list. MEMORY BLANK (Ace, 1986). An amnesia victim on a space station finds tantalizing stranger for a wife, a wise-cracking wrist-computer as an ally. As he tries to restore his memories, he learns things are far worse than he thinks. DEATH TOLLS (Ace, 1987). An ex-reporter on Mars tries to find out if his brother was murdered, and wonders why TV reporter Janet Vincent reaches disasters so fast. DEEP QUARRY (Ace, 1989). A private eye on a desert planet discovers buried alien starship inhabited by aliens who don't like being found. Won Top Hand Award. REDSHIFT RENDEZVOUS (Ace, 1990). One man must stop hijackers from using a strange starship to plunder wealthy colony. Aboard the Redshift, light moves so slowly you can see its passage. SF Book Club selection, HOMer Award winner, Nebula Award nominee. Optioned for film. MANHATTAN TRANSFER (Tor, 1993-4). Aliens kidnap Manhattan. SF Book Club selection. One of eight 1993 books on the preliminary Nebula Award ballot. Rockies Award winner. Hugo Award honorable mention. Seiun Award nominee (Japan). Purchased for film. Chapter one is soon to be excerpted on the Tor Books WWW home page <>. REUNION ON NEVEREND (Tor, 1994-5). At a high-school reunion in space, an undercover agent must blow his cover to save an old flame, and he involves her in an interplanetary chase. HOMer Award nominee. On the Science Fiction Chronicle best of year list. MACRO VESSEL (working title) (Tor, due 1996). Explorers sent deep into the interior of a moon-sized alien creature encounter treachery. Motion Picture Activity USER HOSTILE is high-tech Hitchcock, with John Kennedy. Man and woman on the run must turn for help to computer network friends. Terence Michael Productions has Denny Conrad Harris attached to direct. Film has a distribution guarantee. ICM is currently attaching talent; financing sources are evaluating. MANHATTAN TRANSFER. Empyrean plans to hire screenwriters Ron Shusett (Total Recall), Martin Olson, and George Lee Marshall, and plans an adaptation of novel with a budget the same size as for JURASSIC PARK. NAUGHT FOR HIRE is a quirky action comedy that lampoons malfunctioning technology. In the near future, a private eye and an old flame wind up on a hit list. Adapted from Stith's story in ANALOG. Currently undergoing rewrite for ITB Cinegroup. REDSHIFT RENDEZVOUS. Empyrean has optioned film rights to this novel. Packaged with the film rights are film rights to Stith's short story "Doing Time." Television Stith has sold to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and to the Movie of the Week market. Short Fiction (Partial List) "Early Winter" FANTASTIC, July 1979. "Planet Seven" AMAZING, May 1980. "Simon Sidekick" DRAGON, July 1984 "Last Words" SPACE AND TIME, Summer 1986. "Doing Time" ABORIGINAL SF, July/August 1987. "Little Black Book" ABORIGINAL SF, Jan/Feb 1988. "Redshift Runaway" SPACE AND TIME, Winter 1988. "Naught for Hire" ANALOG, July 1990. "Naught Again" ANALOG, November 1992. "One Giant Step" DINOSAUR FANTASTIC, DAW, July 1993. SFBC edition December 1993. National (USA) TV Appearance SCIENCE FICTION * SCIENCE FACT: [SF]^2, PBS 1987, a one-hour, live special with Ben Bova, Arthur C. Clarke, Charles Sheffield, and G. Harry Stine. Contact Information Stith's email address is 74375.235@compuserve.com. He will attempt to answer all email if time permits. He has some copies of his out of print titles for sale to those readers unable to find them locally. Biography John E. Stith lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. He was born in Boulder, Colorado, and spent most of his pre-college years in Alamogordo, New Mexico. He received a B.A. in physics at the University of Minnesota. After service as an Air Force officer, which allowed him to work in the NORAD Cheyenne Mountain Complex near Colorado Springs, and took him to Alaska for a year, he entered private industry at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. In the seventies he returned to Colorado Springs, and his work has included several software engineering and management positions. In 1977 he began writing nonfiction, and in 1978 he began writing fiction regularly. In 1981 he married for the second time, to Annette. Until January 1991 he worked for Kaman Sciences Corp., where he was an engineering manager. Since then he has been a full-time writer. He was interviewed in the July 1993 SCIENCE FICTION CHRONICLE. "Stith" rhymes with "Smith." END