[1] Redshift Rendezvous, a Nebula Award nominee,[2] is an action-thriller set aboard a space ship traveling through hyperspace, where the speed of light is ten meters per second, so relativistic effects occur at running speed.

Stith's other short fiction has appeared in Amazing Stories, Nature, and Dragon.

Stith lived in Alamogordo, New Mexico from second grade through high school, with the exception of one year at Sunspot, New Mexico (when his father worked at Sacramento Peak Solar Observatory) and one year in Tucson, Arizona (when his father worked at Kitt Peak National Observatory).

His father also worked at Holloman Air Force Base and White Sands Missile Range on projects including the rocket sled.

In the 1950s, the neighbors a few houses down were Jim and Coral Lorenzen, who headed the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO).