"Harris' work is a shrewd genre piece that takes place in an expanding universe that doesn't shy away from farce. A sometimes-preposterous but often profound tale of civilization struggling to persevere. One of the tale's strongest points is its treatment of flesh-and-blood intimacy versus the virtual kind."- KIRKUS REVIEWS"A novel that vaults into its storytelling with confidence and gusto, never letting up for a second. Harris is unrelenting this way, going balls to the wall in terms of ambitious plotting, indulgent tangents, and sumptuous detail, all in the service of describing the journey. It does force a heightened sense of awareness and attention from the reader. Every detail is absorbed and dissected in order to place another key rung into the ladder of understanding as we climb from the depths of the earth and into the sky alongside the characters. This is a world where sex is as casual and negotiable as it is intimate, and thecharacters indulge in it early and often as a manner of building relationships and exerting power over each other. 'Riters' is a curious book. But it is a fascinating one, a story within a story about the journey one takes, and how it might not turn out to be the journey you expected. I don't want to give away anything more than that."- SEATTLE BOOK REVIEW by GLENN DALLAS