Redshift Rendezvous

Light On Light Through · Sep 6, 2007

File this under a novel I'm almost positive you never heard of. But I thought I'd mention it here because, who knows, maybe years from now, someone will read this and look further into one of the best unknown science fiction mystery novels I've ever read.

Redshift Rendezvous by John Stith was published in 1990. It wasn't his first or his last novel. But it's his best. It tells the story of a murder and subsequent investigation on an interstellar space ship.

Nothing so extraordinary about that. But the ship is traveling faster than the speed of light, and Stith posits that the speed of light…