Agave Revealed

A half-millennium after the last survivors of a dying Earth land on a pristine planet, the Eighteenth Mother, leader of the enlightened city of Pelion, finds herself at a crossroads. Though the long, slow process of Transformation is proceeding, a critical imbalance has emerged that threatens the success of this promised leap in human evolution, for far too few candidates are women.

Anna LaForge read Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings at fourteen, Asimov's Foundation Trilogy at sixteen, and LeGuin's The Left Hand of Darkness at eighteen, at which time she decided that she, too, wanted to create new worlds.Born in Philadelphia, her work as an actor, director, dramaturg, and professor has taken her to San Francisco, Washington D.C. and New York City. Once an executive director of two not-for-profit theatre organizations, she now divides her time between teaching, writing, and seeing live performance.