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A Wild Cards "Mosaic" Novel
Edited by George R.R. Martin
The WILD CARDS series of novels anthologies graphic novels and mosaic novels has been running now for twenty years. They're set in a world in which an alien viral weapon instead of killing off most of the human race while still causing many deaths referred to in the series as drawing the Black Queen has caused an ongoing series of mutations as the virus itself changed over decades. The alien plague called the Wild Card VIRUS can kill you or mutate you into an ace joker or deuce and the genetic changes caused can effect your offspring.
Jokers are usually grotesque and malformed with extra limbs or trunks instead of noses or tentalces or worse while Aces are superheroes or villians often gaining comic book style "super" powers and deuces have minor abilities that may seem ridiculous.
In the Wild Cards World forty years have passed since the first round of infections.
There are now first second and third or even fourth generations aces and jokers.
The Nine authors of the stories that make up this mosaic novel have created stories about how humans cope with powers that can be both blessings and curses.
Niobe has a tail or rather an ovipositor that looks like a tail. Her eggs hatch into children with a wide variety of powers but very short life spans of weeks and days.
Noel is a hermaphrodite / shapeshifter / teleporter/ rock star / spy / assassin. Sounds cool and sexy? Not when you're juggling the demands made on you by a dying parent, British Intelligence, a UN spsonsored Aces group and an Arabian prince who thinks you're his personal weapon.
Thier lives will intersect in strange ways as various Aces battle the weather (there's a storm about New Orleans and in this world Harry Connick is the Mayor not a singer) and each other and ... well its a complicated but fun book that will appeal to both Sf and comics fans.
I havent read any Wild Card books for a a couple of years. Sadly the library rarely buys them.
It was a pleasure to find the series is still ongoing and very enjoyable.
Try a visit to WILD CARDS today!
A Wild Cards "Mosaic" Novel
Edited by George R.R. Martin
The WILD CARDS series of novels anthologies graphic novels and mosaic novels has been running now for twenty years. They're set in a world in which an alien viral weapon instead of killing off most of the human race while still causing many deaths referred to in the series as drawing the Black Queen has caused an ongoing series of mutations as the virus itself changed over decades. The alien plague called the Wild Card VIRUS can kill you or mutate you into an ace joker or deuce and the genetic changes caused can effect your offspring.
Jokers are usually grotesque and malformed with extra limbs or trunks instead of noses or tentalces or worse while Aces are superheroes or villians often gaining comic book style "super" powers and deuces have minor abilities that may seem ridiculous.
In the Wild Cards World forty years have passed since the first round of infections.
There are now first second and third or even fourth generations aces and jokers.
The Nine authors of the stories that make up this mosaic novel have created stories about how humans cope with powers that can be both blessings and curses.
Niobe has a tail or rather an ovipositor that looks like a tail. Her eggs hatch into children with a wide variety of powers but very short life spans of weeks and days.
Noel is a hermaphrodite / shapeshifter / teleporter/ rock star / spy / assassin. Sounds cool and sexy? Not when you're juggling the demands made on you by a dying parent, British Intelligence, a UN spsonsored Aces group and an Arabian prince who thinks you're his personal weapon.
Thier lives will intersect in strange ways as various Aces battle the weather (there's a storm about New Orleans and in this world Harry Connick is the Mayor not a singer) and each other and ... well its a complicated but fun book that will appeal to both Sf and comics fans.
I havent read any Wild Card books for a a couple of years. Sadly the library rarely buys them.
It was a pleasure to find the series is still ongoing and very enjoyable.
Try a visit to WILD CARDS today!
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