Manhattan Transfer

by John E. Stith and Stith, John E.

Book Overview

Aliens remove Manhattan, encased in an artificial bubble, to another world, along with cities from other, extraterrestrial civilizations.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812519523
• ISBN13: 9780812519525
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.2" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

In My Top 10

This original and facinating story ranks in my top ten favorite sci-fi novels. I rate it with some of Asimov's masterpieces. I've read it three times.

Rendezvous with Rama meets Cities in Flight

Hey, how come it's been so long since the last John Stith book? This one was great: like Clarke's RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA crossed with Blish's CITIES IN FLIGHT. Manhattan ripped right out of the Earth by aliens! Cool! It's fast paced, exciting, and really has that sensawunder.

Should be filmed.

Manhattan Transfer is a great present-day sci-fi adventure novel, filling all the requirements: dangers, aliens, technology and the rest. I believe this could be a box office hit if it's filmed.

Big ideas from a writer who SHOULD be a big name

It always amazes me that John E. Stith --- author of such great books as REDSHIFT RENDEZVOUS, and this one, MANHATTAN TRANSFER --- isn't often mention in the same breath as Brin, Bear, Benford, Card, and other major SF writers. He's every bit their equal, as this story demonstrates. It's a sort of melding of KIDNAPPED and James Blish's CITIES IN FLIGHT (in that the whole city of Manhattan in kidnapped by aliens, and torn right off the planet into space). Actually, if it reminds me of any other book, it's probably Arthur C Clarke's RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA. That won a Hugo --- why didn't this?

Extraordinary, Bewildering, Intense!!

I picked this book up in the library onboard the USS Santa Barbara. Friday nights in the middle of the North Atlantic can be kind of boring. The cover was quite interesting and I wasn't about to read a book on new fishing tackle. Needless to say, the next 3 days were the most excitment I had during my 9 month cruise. I had always loved hard sci-fi, but never imagined anything of this calibre existed. That was 4 years ago. Today I proudly own Mr. Stith's entire collection. His characters become your best friends as they're molded into the story. By the book's end you're paralized with shock, terror, and excitement all at once. Manhattan? Ripped from Earh. What happens? Read the book! Stith gives you every detail in picturesque painting that only he can. A must read.