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L. Ana (Elle) Ellis
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America (the)
Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative
L. Ana Ellis, a sleep-deprived government worker by day, lets her imagination roam free while writing science fiction late into the night. After spending her days toiling over spreadsheets in a windowless cubicle with fluorescent lighting, and unbeknownst to her coworkers who think she spends her evenings watching cat videos, she spends her nights creating worlds that are more of a commentary on the present than an accurate prediction of the future. Speculating about how societies will change in the future fascinates her; she is undeterred that so far she has been wrong 100% of the time.
Ellis's debut novel, Panacea Genesis, was a semifinalist in the 2023 Self Published Science Fiction Competition. She has published three novels, all in the Panacea Trilogy. She lives in the Washington, DC area with her husband and two cats. When procrastinating, she occasionally posts on Instagram as @lanaellisbooks. She publishes under the indie press Fire-Forged Books.
L. Ana (Elle) Ellis' books
Panacea Genesis (Panacea Trilogy book 1)
In 2115, Mariela Stafford is a vice president at the world’s largest metaverse and pod warehousing company, until she’s demoted by her new boss and replaced by his digital clone. Now the clone wants to kill her boss and is blackmailing Mariela to help.
Embedded chips, expanded virtual reality, and the threat of extreme weather have led to a market for businesses that keep a person’s body alive in a habitation pod while the person lives entirely in the metaverse. But not everyone embraces technological advances – a group of people have adopted pre-2005 tech and isolated themselves to resist the temptation of advanced technology. Panacea Corp – the world’s most powerful corporation – connects both worlds through providing the metaverse, the pod warehouses, and the land to the technology resisters.
To delete the clone, Mariela will need to access an 80-year-old server in the isolated area. She recruits a team to carry out her plan, but none of them know the true nature of what they are doing. The team members include a man who’s still resentful about losing his job three years ago after being outed as unchipped, a woman who doesn’t fit in with the chipped or the unchipped, a renowned former player in the Zazora Games, and a woman who just left her habitation pod after living in the metaverse for 32 years.
This ‘earth’ opera—a tale with all the drama, expansiveness, and varied cast of a space opera, but set on earth—will appeal to anyone who’s ever felt out-of-control of the technology in their lives.
Panacea Exodus (Panacea Trilogy book 2)
A new person is in charge of research at Panacea Corp, and she’s planning to create a disposable army through controlling the embedded chips of cryogens—people who have had their bodies frozen after passing away. The team must find a way to stop her while dealing with nonstop downpour, jail time, and a horde of curious gawkers descending on a remote area to watch the cryo invasion.
Panacea Omega (Panacea Trilogy book 3)
A Panacea Corp competitor rushes their new product—a shot that alters DNA—to market so that people can enter the metaverse without an embedded chip. Unconcerned that the shot is permanent and they’ll never be able to leave again, people return to the metaverse in droves and many enter for the first time. But there are side effects that have far-reaching consequences.