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1) Wild cards
Author
Series
Wild cards series (Simone Elkeles) volume 1
Publisher
Walker Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
Told from two viewpoints, Derek Fitzpatrick, kicked out of boarding school, must move with his stepmother to her childhood home in Illinois, where he meets Ashtyn Parker, who may be able to achieve her dream of a football scholarship with bad boy Derek's help.
Series
Wild cards volume 19
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A collection of "Wild Cards" tales finds veteran ace John Fortune assembling a team of powerful mutants to assist the world's troubled regions, in a volume that includes contributions by such writers as Melinda Snodgrass, Carry Vaughn, and Stephen Leigh.
Series
Wild cards volume 22
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Decades after an alien virus changed the course of history, the surviving population of Manhattan still struggles to understand the new world left in its wake. Natural humans share the rough city with those given extraordinary-and sometimes terrifying-traits. While most manage to coexist in an uneasy peace, not everyone is willing to adapt. Down in the seedy underbelly of Jokertown, residents are going missing. The authorities are unwilling to investigate,...
Series
Wild cards volume 20
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In 1946, an alien virus that rewrites human DNA was accidentally unleashed in the skies over New York City. It killed ninety percent of those it infected. Nine percent survived to mutate into tragically deformed creatures. And one percent gained superpowers.
Series
Wild cards volume 21
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A collaborative novel reveals the world of Fort Freak, a Manhattan police precinct that is operated by mutants and superpowered agents of justice.
In 1946, an alien virus that rewrites human DNA was accidentally unleashed in the skies over New York City. It killed ninety percent of those it infected. Nine percent survived, mutated into tragically deformed creatures. And one percent gained superpowers. The Wild Cards shared-universe series, created...
Series
Wild cards volume 16
Publisher
Tor, A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In this revised collection of classic Wild Cards stories, the spotlight is on the most unusual Wild Cards of them all—the Deuces, people with minor superpowers. But their impact on the world should not be underestimated, as we see how they’ve affected the course of Wild Cards’ alternate history. This collection also features exclusive art to accompany these stories. In Deuces Down, iconic celebrities and landmark events are seen in a whole new...
Series
Wild cards volume 23
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Officer Francis, vigilante joker "The Infamous Black Tongue," and ace thief Tesseract are forced by a cold-blooded Baba Yaga into an illegal fight ring as part of her effort to placate a vicious monster from another dimension.
9) Wild Crush
Author
Series
Publisher
NLA Digital LLC
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
When the only girl you want is the one you can't have...
Bad boy Vic Salazar breaks all the rules except one: Don't make a move on your best friend's girl. It's a Guy Code that Vic lives by. It doesn't matter that he's had a crush on her for years. Monika Fox is off limits.
Monika has a secret of her own and when a tragedy throws her and Vic together, the only boy she trusts is the one she shouldn't confide in. Vic.
As Vic struggles to keep
...10) Mississippi roll
Series
Wild cards volume 24
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
After the suspicious death of a crew member on the historical steamboat Natchez, retired NY police detective Leo Storgman seeks to discover the ship's secrets, including the truth behind ghostly sightings of its first captain.
11) Full house
Series
Wild cards volume 30
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In hardcover for the first time, Full House brings together the Wild Cards stories that have been previously published on Tor.com, including works from: Daniel Abraham Cherie Priest David D. Levine Walter Jon Williams Paul Cornell Carrie Vaughn Caroline Spector Stephen Leigh Melinda M. Snodgrass And more!"--
12) Pairing up
Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An alien virus ravages the world, its results as random as a hand of cards. Those infected either draw the black queen and die, draw and ace and receive superpowers, or draw the joker and are bizarrely mutated. Nevertheless, human nature reigns supreme. And one fo the most enduring human drives is the search for love. Aces and jokers alike both want to find it, or have lost it...or perhaps just want to use it for personal gain. Within these stories,...
13) Jokers wild
Series
Wild cards volume 3
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
2014, ©1987.
Language
English
Description
"The journey into high adventure soars on! Let the secret history of the world be told--of the alien virus that struck Earth after World War II, and of the handful of survivors who found they now possess superhuman powers. Some were called Aces, endowed with powerful mental and physical prowess. The others were Jokers, tormented by bizarre mind or body disfigurements. Some served humanity. Others wreaked terror. Now, forty years later, under the streets...
14) Death draws five
Author
Series
Wild cards volume 17
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Edited by bestselling author George R.R. Martin, in the next Wild Cards adventure we follow John Fortune, son of two of the most powerful and popular Aces the world has ever seen. In Death Draws Five, John Fortune's card has finally turned. He's an Ace! And proud of it . . . except that his new powers put him on a collision course with enemies he never knew he had. Is he the new messiah? Or the Anti-Christ? Or is he just a kid who's in over his head...
15) Three kings
Series
Wild cards volume 28
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The next anthology in George R. R. Martin's ongoing Wild Cards alternate-history series, Three Kings. In the aftermath of World War II, the Earth's population was devastated by an alien virus. Those who survived were changed forever. Some, known as jokers, were cursed with bizarre mental and physical mutations; others, granted superhuman abilities, became the lucky few known as aces. Queen Margaret, who came to the English throne after the death...
16) Texas hold'em
Series
Wild cards volume 26
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When students gather at the nation's top high school jazz competition in San Antonio, Texas, the musicians at Xavier Desmond High, teenagers with strange abilities, start going wayward in their efforts to outplay their rivals.
17) Joker moon
Series
Wild cards volume 29
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Theodorus was a dreamer. As a child, he dreamt of airplanes, rockets, and outer space. When the wild card virus touched him and transformed him into a monstrous snail centaur weighing several tons, his boyhood dreams seemed out of reach, but a Witherspoon is not so easily defeated. Years and decades passed, and Theodorus grew to maturity and came into his fortune...but still his dream endured. But now when he looked upward into the night sky, he...
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An original collection of interwoven short stories set in the Wild Cards universe, where an alien virus mutates some and grants superpowers to others, created by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Game of Thrones. An alien virus ravages the world, with effects as random as a hand of cards. Those infected either draw the black queen and die, draw an ace and receive superpowers, or draw the joker and are bizarrely mutated. Croyd Crenson...
19) Aces high
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After the alien virus struck humanity in the wake of World War II, a handful of the survivors found they possessed superhuman powers. The Wild Cards shared-world volumes tell their story. Here in book two, we trace these heroes and villains through the tumultuous 1980s, in stories from SF and fantasy giants such as George R. R. Martin, Roger Zelazny, Pat Cadigan, Lewis Shiner, Walter Jon Williams, and others"--
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