Title: Riters
Author: Roy Harris
Publisher: URLink Print & Media
ISBN: 978-1647537531
Pages: 506
Genre: Literature & Fiction / Science-Fiction
Reviewed by: Anthony Avina
Hollywood Book Reviews
One of the things people have the hardest time holding onto is a sense of wonder. The special kind of magic which allows for any possibility and hope to thrive and grow in our lives. As Albert Einstein once said, “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”
In author Roy Harris’s Riters, the author explores a future that is completely alien to us all. Four generations have been in space, searching for a new world to save their civilization and find a new home. A hundred years after stepping onboard the monolithic ship known as the Protostar, the people of the ship discover how they came to be their civilization’s last hope for survival.
This is a truly unique, humorous and perfectly absurd sci-fi story. The author embodies the classic science fiction genre tropes which fans have come to know and love over the years. The book doesn’t waste any time, diving head first into the lore and mythos of the narrative early on while also touching upon some of the big changes to society as a whole, including the casual manner in which intimacy is used both physically and virtually through technology. What really stands out though is the balance of maturity as far as character interactions and growth is concerned, along with the humor and wit that comes with diving so far into the more unique and zany storylines that encompass the sci-fi genre as a whole.
This is the perfect read for fans of the science-fiction genre, especially those that enjoy authors who write in a way which makes the genre very apparent and touches upon several different sub-plots that have become synonymous with the genre. As a fan of sci-fi, I was immediately drawn into this growing world of humanity’s survival in a future far from the home we know, and the journey to reconnect in a world where intimacy is more common through technology than ever before.
A brilliant, engaging, and mesmerizing science fiction drama, author Roy Harris’s Riters is a must-read book. Perfectly balancing adult humor and storytelling with thought-provoking and mind-bending sci-fi tropes, this narrative is both lengthy and yet fast-paced in its approach, diving head first into this incredible new mythology that expands upon the highs and lows of human evolution and society as a whole.