Glendyl Fenderwell has just been crowned St. Coriander's latest Luckiest. Her prize is to be thrust forth into the wild Tusas Mountains on a hopeless quest for the last Nevergate. Armed only with a sharp-tongued backpack and her own wits she has small hope of succeeding where 249 others have failed. So begins the first volume in the Last Nevergate Chronicles.

E. T. Ellison's Book of the Year award-winning first novel has all the makings of an enduring classic: originality, intelligence, action and a richly executed vision. The Luck of Madonna 13 is an inventive fast-paced read salted with wry wit, whimsy, delicious language, engaging characters and outrageous plot turns. Along the way the author weaves in thought-provoking encounters with topics like cloning, longevity, evolution, eugenics, created intelligence, spirituality, gambling, luck, magic, celebrity and wealth.

Ellison raises the storytelling bar several more notches on the lastnevergate.com website. Here the story and backstory are amplified and extended in novel ways, providing a virtual refresher course on the future. Quincunx icons (see right column) in the book's margins indicate where additional pertinent content (possibly including hints and clues) can be found on the website. The author has placed quite a few "informatives" on the website already, including:

• Excerpts from Oprah 5's conversation with Clans Dunnigan founders Victoria and Donella Dunnigan following the natbirths of their two 2117 “special edition” offspring. Although mothers of 300 podborns already, the 67-year-old former Igan twins show off their recent Refurbs and joyously nurse their infants onstage.
  
  
• Reviews of The Great Nevergate Hack, the 2131 edition of a popular paingame, including as still image of the game's controversial animated pakwrap.

Other informatives in the works include:

• A portion of Letterman 4's 2130 interview with Madonna 13 about the continued use of her controversial hit "Last Train to Nirvana" by Errigaspovarrial, "the alien mountebank" blamed by WorldGov for duping hundreds of millions of earthers into joining the so-called Nirvana Exodus.

• Clips from the almost prescient Larry King 3 session with Biax 1.20, the intelligence cluster responsible for designing the highly controversial experimental species called wyverns. Curiously, this was recorded only two months before the the deadly "Prototype Center Raid" of April 1, 2133.

Click on the quincunx icon to the right for a test drive.

If you want to read about the book's awards and what the critics are saying (hint: they're calling The Luck of Madonna 13 things like "this is sci-fi at its best"), click here to go to our Praise For page.

A wealth of additional materials are available for downloading, including the complete Chapter One and the clever and illuminating Genesis future history section.

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Chronicler's Edition
To celebrate the first book in this great new series we created a fine first edition of The Luck of Madonna 13. Click here for details about the Chronicler's Edition.

Quincunx Alert!
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