Aces High (Wild Cards Series #2)

Aces High (Wild Cards Series #2)

Aces High (Wild Cards Series #2)

Aces High (Wild Cards Series #2)

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Overview

Soon to be a TV show on Hulu!

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, Wild Cards II: Aces High, we trace these heroes and villains through the tumultuous 1980s, both like and unlike our own. Now, after centuries of travel through space, an extraterrestrial being called the Swarm is headed for Earth. Meanwhile, some of the aces given superpowers by the virus are hatching conspiracies to control the human world. These factions are about to collide…and the fallout could be catastrophic.

Featuring stories from SF and fantasy giants such as George R. R. Martin, Roger Zelazny, Pat Cadigan, Lewis Shiner, Walter Jon Williams, and others.

Rights to develop Wild Cards for TV have been acquired by Universal Cable Productions, the team that brought you The Magicians and Mr. Robot, with the co-editor of Wild Cards, Melinda Snodgrass as executive producer.

The Wild Cards Universe
The Original Triad
#1 Wild Cards
#2 Aces High
#3 Jokers Wild

The Puppetman Quartet
#4: Aces Abroad
#5: Down and Dirty
#6: Ace in the Hole
#7: Dead Man’s Hand

The Rox Triad
#8: One-Eyed Jacks
#9: Jokertown Shuffle
#10: Dealer’s Choice

#11: Double Solitaire
#12: Turn of the Cards

The Card Sharks Triad
#13: Card Sharks
#14: Marked Cards
#15: Black Trump

#16: Deuces Down
#17: Death Draws Five

The Committee Triad
#18: Inside Straight
#19: Busted Flush
#20: Suicide Kings

The Fort Freak Triad
#21: Fort Freak
#22: Lowball
#23: High Stakes

The American Triad
#24: Mississippi Roll
#25: Low Chicago
#26: Texas Hold 'Em


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780765326164
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/20/2011
Series: Wild Cards Series , #2
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 400
Sales rank: 447,911
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

About The Author
George R.R. Martin is the author of the acclaimed, internationally bestselling fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, adapted into the hit HBO series Game of Thrones. He is also the editor and contributor to the Wild Cards series, including the novels Suicide Kings and Fort Freak, among other bestsellers. He has won multiple science fiction and fantasy awards, including four Hugos, two Nebulas, six Locus Awards, the Bram Stoker, the World Fantasy Award, the Daedelus, the Balrog, and the Daikon (the Japanese Hugo). Martin has been writing ever since he was a child, when he sold monster stories to neighborhood children for pennies, and then in high school he wrote fiction for comic fanzines. His first professional sale was to Galaxy magazine, when he was 21. He has been a full-time writer since 1979. Martin has bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from Northwestern University. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Hometown:

Santa Fe, NM

Date of Birth:

September 20, 1948

Place of Birth:

Bayonne, NJ

Education:

B.S., Northwestern University, 1970; M.S., Northwestern University, 1971

Table of Contents

Pennies from hell / Lewis Shiner
Jube: One / George R.R. Martin
Unto the Sixth Generation: Prologue / Walter Jon Williams
Jube: Two / George R.R. Martin
Ashes to Ashes / Roger Zelazny
Unto the Sixth Generation, Part One / Walter Jon Williams
Unto the Sixth Generation, Part Two / Walter Jon Williams
Jube: Three / George R.R. Martin
1986. If Looks Could Kill / Walton Simons
Jube: Four / George R.R. Martin
Unto the Sixth Generation: epilogue / Walter Jon Williams
Winter's Chill / George R.R. Martin
Jube: Five / George R.R. Martin
Relative Difficulties / Melinda M. Snodgrass
With a Little Help from His Friends / Victor Mila´n
Jube: Six / George R.R. Martin
By Lost Ways / Pat Cadigan
Mr. Koyama's Comet / Walter Jon Williams
Half Past Dead / John J. Miller
Jube: Seven / George R.R. Martin

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