The Doppler Effect and Other Stories

This is a collection of three stories each a short novel in itself. Strictly speaking theyre science fiction but that label doesnt describe them accurately. The truth is when Allen Steele wrote these stories he was deliberately playing with a different genre: mystery-suspense fiction.Whats an astronomer to do when hes been forced out of his teaching job on trumped-up charges of cultural insensitivity? If hes Theodore Reggs aka T-Rex his solution may involve hijacking a deep space probe and planning an alien invasion....When a young man disappears on an alien planet the reason might not be nefarious. But returning him to his family could entail other unforeseen dangers....While fleeing the Nazis aboard a massive flying boat Albert Einstein has several surprising encounters when he teams up with a New York private eye and a Scotland Yard detective who may not be quite what he seems.... Allen Steele is the author of nineteen novels and six collections of short fiction. His works have been translated worldwide and have received the Hugo Locus and Seiun awards and have been nominated for the Nebula Sturgeon and Sidewise Awards. He is also a recipient of the Robert A. Heinlein Award. His first published story Live from the Mars Hotel was published in 1988 and his first novel Orbital Decay was published in 1989. His best-known work is the Coyote series. A graduate of New England College and the University of Missouri he is a former journalist and once spent a brief tenure as a Washington correspondent. He was born and raised in Nashville Tennessee and now lives in western Massachusetts with his wife and dogs.