AWARDS
Book of the Year 2002-- ForeWord Magazine's first place gold winner for science fiction.
Best Books of 2002 -- Made January Magazine's list of their top 92 books across all genres. One of six picks in the science fiction/fantasy genre.
REVIEWS
"Highly
imaginative."
--- Publisher’s
Weekly,
May 2002
"The Luck of Madonna 13 lives up to every bit of its advance praise.
I can't wait to read the Second Chronicle of the Last Nevergate...a series
that is destined for greatness. Ellison is a writer on a par with Paul Di Filippo,
Steve Aylett, or Bruce Sterling, full of witty satire and cultural commentary.
His first novel is innovative and inimitable, and his writing style displays
an amazingly well-honed edge for a new writer."
--- Gabe Chouinard, January
Magazine, December 2002.
"Conflict
abounds, characters are larger than life, and the technology projections
are superb. This is sci fi at its best. This will be a classic work on
the scale of the Foundation [Isaac Asimov] or Dorsai [Gordon R. Dickson]
series. We gave it our highest five hearts rating."
--- Bob Spear, Heartland
Reviews, November 2002
"The Luck of Madonna 13 is quite wonderful. E.T. Ellison has brought
us a fully realized future world with humor and more than a little understanding
of human nature. His characters are superbly executed. His plot winds up and
unwinds in completely believable ways. And, most important in a work that is
intended to be the first installment in an ongoing saga, The Luck of Madonna
13 manages to satisfy and leave you wanting more.
"Ellison's cheerfully skewed wackiness
puts the reader in mind of early Terry Pratchett. And, like Pratchett, there
is some science here but mostly fantasy of an original enough nature that it
begs for its own genre."
--- Lincoln Cho, January
Magazine, June 2002
"Ellison is a hugely inventive storyteller with a wry sense of humor, a
satirical bent that verges on being Swiftian, a gift for evocative wordcraft
and a talent for making wacky and bizarre ideas completely believable. The
Luck of Madonna 13 is a genre-spanning tale that can be enjoyed at multiple
levels by audiences of vastly different ages and tastes."
--- Gloria Mandeville, The Mountain
Signal, September 2002
"This is a very amibitious first novel, which signals the arrival of a new
force on the fantasy and science fiction scene. What a story! The Luck of
Madonna 13 is a fun read and an extremely complex yet consistent tapestry;
I anxiously await the next panel. So, Mr. Ellison, get to work on that sequel!"
--- Chuck Gregory, Blue
Ear, September 2002
"Here's
something that flew in well off the radar that deserves a lot more attention
than [the] latest Tolkien/Rowling mishmash. A rip-roaring good tale…a
story for all ages. Better put, this is a story for all those people
hip enough to "get it."
--- David Soyka, Locus Online,
January 2003
"… an
impressive, sprawling book that manages to mix the best of fantasy and
science fiction. Ellison’s speculation on future pop culture is
some of the most thought-out and well presented I’ve seen; the
world-building here is top-notch. The sociological satire is both funny
and eminently believable, as are his inventions."
--- Lynn Nicole Louis, SFReader,
February 2003
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