1--What is the title of your latest release?
TINY TIME MACHINE: THE COMPLETE TRILOGY
2--What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book?
All life on Earth will die of thirst unless a couple of loners on the run from cops can use a strange time machine to stop a secret project
3--How did you decide where your book was going to take place?
In TTM, the oceans of the future have coagulated into a Jell-O like substance, so I wanted most of the action to take place on the coast, where that spectacle would be visible. Once I narrowed the choices down to coastal cities in the US, San Francisco is be loaded with interesting locations.
4--Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life?
You bet. I have a granddaughter who shares some characteristics with the lead character in TTM, including a sense of humor.
5--What are three words that describe your protagonist?
Fearless, intelligent, independent
6--What’s something you learned while writing this book?
Trickier to write, time-travel stories are, than linear stories.
7--Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done?
A little of both, but not at the same time. I try to get my ideas into words first and then try to get just the right words. I do several drafts at the end, but as I start each new session, I often go back a few pages and rewrite to get in the groove for new stuff.
8--What’s your favorite foodie indulgence?
Oreos
9--Describe your writing space/office!
Lots of shelves and books of course Big desk with too many notes to self. Widescreen monitor for lots of windows and gaming. A few framed book covers. A window at my back. The occasional cat working diligently on a personal best sleep score.
10--Who is an author you admire?
Connie Willis. Not only does she write amazing books with a wide range, she’s witty and compassionate.
11--Is there a book that changed your life?
Not one particular book, but over time I got an adrenaline rush from a number of wonderful books by the likes of Robert Heinlein and Bob Shaw and Brian Aldiss, and I would say to myself, “Wow. I wish I could do that.”
12--Tell us about when you got “the call.” (when you found out your book was going to be published)/Or, for indie authors, when you decided to self-publish.
This was a long time ago. I was at a copy shop, making a copy of the manuscript of my just-completed second novel, MEMORY BLANK. The phone rang and the clerk asked me if I was John Stith. On the line was my wife, telling me my agent called and my first novel, SCAPESCOPE, had just sold to Ace Books.
13--What’s your favorite genre to read?
More mystery-suspense than science fiction lately.
14--What’s your favorite movie?
THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
15--What is your favorite season?
The next one.
16--How do you like to celebrate your birthday?
A nice meal with my wife, Karen.
17--What’s a recent tv show/movie/book/podcast you highly recommend?
For All Mankind from Apple TV. It’s a terrific alternate history that starts with the Russians beating the USA to a lunar landing. Since the Russian team also has female astronauts, the overall result is to kick our space program into high gear and accelerate the women’s rights and gay rights movements. As with much great SF, it comments on our own life and times and suggests how things could be different in our own lives.
18--What’s your favorite type of cuisine?
Whatever niche a hamburger and fries fit into.
19--What do you do when you have free time?
Complain that I don’t have enough free time. And read.
20--What can readers expect from you next?
DISAVOWED, a new SF novel, is due in December. A doctor aboard a starship sent to the wrong destination survives the loss of his ship and an escape-pod landing on a hostile alien planet, but even if he can find his way home, his troubles will be far from over.
The Complete Trilogy
All 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! An action-packed short novel from a Nebula Award nominee.
When Meg's mother died in a hospital mishap, that set her father, a scientist—now an angry scientist—on an obsessed journey to develop a tiny time machine (TTM) to save her. Before he could perfect his new device, however, he died in a confrontation with his business partner.
Enter Meg, the angry scientist's daughter (as opposed to a mad scientist's daughter). She's a loner, on the run with another loner, Josh, when she finds her dying father and the TTM.
It's all up to Meg and Josh to fix a disaster set to render the Earth uninhabitable, dive back into the past to rescue Mom and Dad, and overcome an adversary who wants the TTM for his own purposes.
Complete in this one volume:
Tiny Time Machine 1: When Meg Met Josh
Tiny Time Machine 2: Return of the Father
Tiny Time Machine 3: Mother of Invention
Science Fiction Alternate History | Young Adult [Author Self-Published, On Sale: September 27, 2024, Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9798888315422 / eISBN: 9798224633128]
Science fiction and mystery author John E. Stith is the author of Nebula Award finalist Redshift Rendezvous and Manhattan Transfer, which also received an honorable mention from the Hugo Awards, and is currently in development for television. In 2024, he releases the full trilogy for Tiny Time Machine (Oct 1) and Disavowed (Dec 1).
Writing across many worlds, his hard-science fiction stories are thoroughly researched to play fair with the rules of science. Stith holds a B.A. in physics from the University of Minnesota and served as an Air Force Officer where he worked at NORAD Cheyenne Mountain Complex. His passion for science runs in the family, as his father George worked at the White Sands Missile Range on such projects like the rocket sled.
Stith appeared on a live nationwide PBS broadcast Science-Fiction Science-Fact (SF2) and his novel Reckoning Infinity was chosen as one of Science Fiction Chronicle’s Best of Year Science Fiction Novels. Stith is a member of Mystery Writers of America (MWA) (past regional VP), International Thriller Writers, Science-Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) (past Contracts Chair), Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers (RMFW), Colorado Author’s League and past member of Mensa and Writers Guild of America (WGA). He's a former columnist for Mystery Scene. He lives in Colorado Springs.
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