New York: Simon & Schuster, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - A humorous young adult fantasy - or as one reviewer described it: "A wickedly barbed low fantasy. It's 2287, and due to a combination of bad planetary management and sheer funk, the human population has shrunk to just a handful. Having spent a year in an abandoned penthouse subsisting on roof-garden veggies and the occasional rat, young Jay gathers up his chicken, Ethel, and heads for the streets, driven by the urge to roam. Imagine Jay's surprise when Ethel suddenly introduces herself as a superbeing from Megaton, sent to rescue humans from extinction, even though they're 'Dumb as cluckin' cardboard'." 248 pp. ISBN: 0-689839790.