THE SKELLIGLy de Angeles & Melaine KnightThe year is 2156. Dystopia. Misrule. Pirates, badlands, transdrones, cowboys, rebellion. THE SKELLIG is a story of hope and redemption where hard tech and stainless steel meets legend and myth. The skellig's name is Gamble. She's all woman. Most of the time. On the black of the moon she's another creature altogether, a praying mantis. A deal she made, with the soul of earth known as the Grace, a few thousand years ago. Sometimes, over a couple of days, she's a bit of both.A desperate flight north is the only hope for thousands of runaways. Guided by an indigenous and immortal starman, the shape-shifting skellig, a Maori mystic named Mukata and Terrence, a scientist who should be the enemy but is not, they make the journey. Bull and Rattlesnake Lil drive the airstream named the Midnight Express, packed to the rafters with escapees and hybrids. Alice, in his armored all-terrain tank, raises his rainbow pennant on a fifteen foot high middle-finger to the drone swarms overhead. A militarized force behind them is intent on annhialation. Escape is beyond the northern border, accessed only by fording a mighty, raging river and guarded by a mythic race called Álfur. It is live free or die trying.