PUSHBACK: At his ten-year high-school reunion, an investment counselor finds he doesn't know one person there, and soon realizes he must outwit an unknown antagonist who wants him dead. PUSHBACK, a mystery-suspense novel, was published in November 2018 and is a finalist for the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense, mainstream category. He is becoming one of the most eloquent modern hard-sf practitioners.” - Booklist “Stith writes in the best hard-sf manner, dropping characters into a situation that can be solved only by thought and reason, but he also, more modernly, creates real and believable characters. Story” afterword, which illuminates the evolution of idea into full novella.Īlso included is the long out of print short story, 'Redshift Runaway,' set in the same slow-light universe as Stith's Nebula Finalist novel, Redshift Rendezvous. Paul Levinson, author of the acclaimed Phil D'Amato SF mysteries.įollowing the story is Stith’s “How I Built a Time Machine. This volume features an introduction from Dr. Campbell Memorial Award winner and author of The Oppenheimer Alternative. Tiny Time Machine is a triumph.' - Robert J. Stith is one of our very best writers, and this is one of his very best stories: a big idea explored from every conceivable angle. Can they save the world, and save each other? They are up against the cops, a powerful billionaire, a Russian profiteer, and a romantic rival. When the invention proves to be a time machine that holds the key to humanity's future, Meg and Josh must find a way to do the impossible-to work as a team. Just before he dies, he gives Meg a strange device that looks like a cellphone and tells her to use extreme caution. But when Meg and Josh reach him, they find him dying. When Meg and Josh suddenly find themselves on the run from the cops, Meg heads for the one man who should always take her in-her father. When Meg breaks into a paint company to expose their practices, she runs into Josh, another loner out to save the world. And her father has had a different obsession.

Meg has become a loner, obsessed with combating polluters like the ones who triggered her mother's death. Her father is not a mad scientist, just really angry-so angry that he and Meg have rarely spoken since the death of her mother. A new short novel from Nebula Award nominee John E Stith, from Amazing Stories, with illustrations by Nikolett Timar.Īll life on Earth will die of thirst unless a couple of loners on the run can use a strange time machine to stop a secret project.

Tiny Time Machine by John E. Stith