Few days ago I received great news that made my day big time. I literally danced and walked through the apartment like a hyperactive squirrel celebrating this great news. The news of online publishing “The Eldridge Roster“.

It all started few years back; I met this very kind, open-minded, very well educated, extremely funny person, online through my blog. He became a loyal reader and started sharing his two cents on almost every thing I wrote. I couldn’t help noticing how different his writing was from all other readers who left their comments. His unique sense of humor, and his very different style of writing, the level of his knowledge and the way I got attached to reading his comments forced me to ask him about his background and profession. I wasn’t shocked to learn that one of his professions was actually being a writer, a very talented one if I may add. And so one email led to the other and I  knew that he’s already written 4 science fiction novels and was almost done with the 5th one. So I asked about his latest book and he was so sweet to send me the script before it was published. He also gave me the honor of proofreading it for him.

I must say that I’m not a big fan of science-fiction, so I was afraid this job will take forever to be done, but I was shocked to find myself enjoying every word of every line of every paragraph of every page of this book. I was so impressed. Loved the writing, the story, the plot, the characters… everything. The Eldridge Roster was such a page turner, extremely exciting, and very very interesting. It was shockingly suspenseful. The element of suspense works its magic from the very first chapter, accompanied with very well structured characters, a little bit of sweet romance, and detailed descriptions of places and surroundings. Scientific theories are explained to readers in the most easy way, making the whole science fiction bit a delight rather than a confusing complicated point as is the case in many science fiction novels. I also loved the very informative dialogs which are clearly based on a lot of scientific as well as historic research.

One of the things I truly loved about this book was how the writer squeezed his unique sense of humor and sarcasm in the conversations, in such a lovely natural way that helped add this “down to earth” effect, making it such a delight to read.

This book MUST be made into a movie, its story and plot are way much better than a lot of science fiction movies/shows we watched and are still watching.

I highly recommended The Eldridge Roster, read it, and trust me, you’ll love it as much as I did.

P.s. only translators know what a nightmare proofreading can be, simply because of the mentality of writers and their extremely subjective, personal, and protective way of dealing with editing their original texts. But with Stephen, things were nothing like that. I would like to thank him for his open-minded approach, which made this experience enjoyable and so much fun. THANK YOU, wishing you lots of success to come, and looking forward to reading your 6th book