You’re
not going to find another book site anything like this. That’s by
design. Unlike most book websites, the Chronicler’s Site eschews
hype. Mostly, it’s a library--the Quincunx Library, in the author’s
parlance. The library is part of the author’s experiment in extending
the novel onto the Web and contains a quite remarkable array of supplementary
materials
that
add flesh to the future Earth he has created for The Luck of Madonna
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and forthcoming books in the Last Nevergate Chronicles series. There's also
a site-within-a-site containing the latest dope on the book and author. Like
winning the ForeWord Magazine 2002 Book of the Year for science fiction.
For such a novel (pun intended) undertaking, we developed a future-retro look
that has anchored both the first and second editions of site. The author periodically
adds new material to the Quincunx Library, which will grow even more when
other books in the series are published.
The author’s personal site — www.etellison.com — was one of the first sites built at websbury.com. It's getting a little long
in the tooth, but the client still thinks it's cool.
