Handroid

by Grant J. Riley

Handroid is a work of speculative fiction set in a near-future Hanoi, Vietnam.

274 pages, Paperback

Published December 8, 2020

About the author

Well-travelled, well-read, and well-tested. I have five distinctively different books published with Lulu.com. The 6th is a work in progress. 1) A Journal from the End of Times - A travelogue accompanied by discussion, research, and reflection. 2) Marginal - A series of auto-fictitious short stories based around pre-millennial tension, set in the UK, Ireland, and Holland. 3) Handroid - A near-future speculative fiction set in Hanoi, Vietnam, which spins the android clichés. My 6th book will be a sequel to this tale. 4) Lockdown Hanoi - A diary kept during the pandemic inside a country which stopped all flights and ways in and out for two years. 5) Calling Crows - A further collection of tales from the front line of rioters, travellers, and protesters: UK 80s/90s. 6) Thanh Thanh in Vietnam - Last of the Humans - a working title and yet to be finished project. Beyond fiction, I have written academic and reportorial pieces in various journals and publications, including The Ecologist, The Holistic Science Journal, VNExpress International, Chào Hanoi, and the Vietnam Economic Times. Grant J. Riley - sometimes The Glorious Rant, sometimes simply G.Rant. Follow the links and I hope you'll get the picture.

Reviews

[Anthony Trewhitt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Handroid takes you from the Hanoi to the hills in fast moving tale of what is coming soon, if not here already. You can smell and taste the places Mr Riley writes about, a great storyteller. Watch out, the bots maybe about and sat next to you already…