From Publishers Weekly
In New Mexico, in the year 2434, 16-year-old Glendyl Fenderwell has rather unwillingly embarked on a quest to discover the Last Nevergate, a "mechanism which made possible travel between a virtually infinite number of parallax universes." Though the 249 seekers before her failed, Glendyl bears a resemblance to Madonna 13 - who might be a clone of the original Madonna - and therefore might share her powers and "remarkable" good fortune in E.T. ellison's highly imaginative The Luck of Madonna 13 (the first in a series).
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From the Publisher
Every once in a while, even jaded publishers encounter something that stands tall above the crowd. If we live long enough and have enough luck, that is. The manuscript for E. T. Ellison’s The Luck of Madonna 13 was one of those rare encounters; an author and a first novel that are both true originals. The early prepublication reviews are confirming what we saw in that stack of paper: an entertaining and imaginative thrill ride through an engaging future populated with wonderful characters and a gazillion ideas. Amazingly, it’s the kind of genre-spanning novel that works for all sorts of readers in widely disparate age groups.
The early praise makes us believe that maybe we weren’t completely crazy to celebrate this remarkable first novel with a special first edition loaded with features you just don’t see much in these publishing-by-the-numbers times. Like an old-fashioned frontispiece illustration; like special full-color endpapers from an illustration created by the author himself; like Smyth-sewn case binding; like environmentally friendly, acid-free recycled paper. The Chronicler’s Edition is also a real limited edition: exactly 2,434 individually signed and numbered copies. When they're gone, they're gone: only one first edition of this first novel.
