Melinda M. Snodgrass

Fleeing the battle between the Jokers, Aces, and Nats, Blaise heads for the planet Takis in the body of Dr. Tachyon, leaving Tach trapped in the pregnant body of a teenage runaway. Original.

Double Solitaire

George R. R. Martin

Michael Cassutt

John J. Miller

An alien biological weapon was accidentally detonated over New York City, killing countless numbers of people. Those who survived, soon began to wish they had died once they discovered that they had been forever mutated by the virus unleashed in the blast. In this all-new collection of Wild Cards stories, the spotlight is on the most unusual Wild Cards of them all--the Deuces. Their role in the Wild Cards Universe is just as important as that of the Aces and the Jokers. In fact, their actions have affected the course of Wild Cards history.

Deuces Down

The Rook

A novel of the eternal battle between science and superstition I’m Richard Oort. I’m a cop. Two months ago I had learned there were unseen worlds on the borders of our reality. Dimensions filled with horrific, nightmare creatures. Things that viewed humans as prey. Things that drove us to acts of unspeakable violence. I had to fight them. To defend the people I loved, and to find out who I was. And am. I’m still a cop. But now I’m also CEO of Lumina Enterprises, a mysterious, globe-girdling operation even I don’t know the full extent of. Replacing the previous guy, who appears to have also been Prometheus, really and truly. Now Prometheus is bound, and the job of taking the fight to the next level is mine. Because the horrors aren’t over. And they’ll use any human weakness they can get hold of. This is a fight for the world. For keeps.

The Edge of Ruin

Composer Guy Maslin joins the crew of the "Enterprise" to investigate the strange continuous song of the inhabitants of Taygeta, source of a dangerous spacewarp, and they discover that the destruction of the Singers is linked to the growing discontinuity

The Tears of the Singers

Thucydides Trap: A point when one great power threatens to displace another, war is unavoidable...Thracius "Tracy" Belmanor has struggled to do his patriotic duty in the wake of the loss of the love of his life, Empress Mercedes de Arango. Amid a desperate war, the Solar League cannot afford his grief, nor the political instability of admitting the depth of their relationship.It is for duty alone, both as a soldier and as a father, that he has entered into a loveless marriage that makes him part of the royal family to shepherd his son and the Solar League towards what seems to be humanity's triumph against its foe.However, a new danger has appeared that will lead to extinction on a galactic scale, and once again both Tracy and Mercedes must place duty over their own desires.

Thucydides Trap

The Solar League, humanity's empire, has existed since mankind reached for the stars. While the humans considered it the pinnacle of human achievement, for the subjugated alien races it seemed only to endorse humanity's worst impulses. But the worst of humanity pales in comparison to an alien onslaught that is on the verge of bringing mankind down into death and subjugation. Thracius "Tracy" Belmanor helps lead the Solar League's desperate defense against this new alien threat while the Empress of the Solar League, Mercedes, tries to keep the League from tearing apart. However, neither is prepared for the questions that need to be answered to save mankind and all of the human and non-human citizens of the League. Is humanity redeemable? Can the League reform into something better? Tracy and Mercedes must ask these questions of themselves and then decide the future of humanity while facing betrayals, ambition, and secrets that may bring about a dark age for the galaxy.

Currency of War

Howard Waldrop

Roger Zelazny

Walter Jon Williams

Stephen Leigh

Carrie Vaughn

David D. Levine

Victor Milán

Lewis Shiner

Edward Bryant

Leanne C. Harper

"Wild Cards is the first novel in the Wild Cards series edited by George R.R. Martin. It was first published in 1987 and was nominated for a Hugo Award in the following year. The [original] novel contains ten short stories introducing the Wild Cards universe: an alternate Earth history in which an alien virus is released over the skies of New York City in 1946, transforming a few individuals into superhuman aces, and mutating many more into monstrous jokers. Applying unrelenting realism into superhero traditions, the novel imagines an altered 20th century in which superhumans interact with historical events. Besides the ten stories, there are also several interludes written by Martin, mimicking real newspaper articles, book excerpts, or magazine retrospectives presented in a in-world style."--Wild Cards Wiki.

O começo de tudo

Captured by the Nazis, Rafe Springer, an explorer, Billi Forsyth, a reporter, and Melbourne Shrewsbury, a British professor, are forced to lead an expedition to Greenland in search of Odin's spear

Runespear

More exciting adventures from the longest running shared-world superhero series created and edited by George R.R. Martin, bestselling author of GAME OF THRONES 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, except for a fresh lieutenant looking to prove himself and a collection of unlikely jokers forced to take matters into their own hands - or tentacles. The deeper into the kidnapping case these misfits and miscreants get, the higher the stakes are raised. Edited by No.1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author George R.R. Martin and acclaimed author Melinda M. Snodgrass, LOWBALL is the latest mosaic novel in the acclaimed Wild Cards universe, featuring original fiction by Carrie Vaughn, Ian Tregillis, David Anthony Durham, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Mary Anne Mohanraj, David D. Levine, Michael Cassutt and Walter Jon Williams. Perfect for old fans and new readers alike, LOWBALL delves deeper into the world of aces, jokers, and the hard-boiled men and women of the Fort Freak police precinct in a pulpy, page-turning novel of superheroics and mystery.

Wild Cards - Lowball

Stories by writers living in New Mexico deal with robots, a drug theft, an alien invasion, vampires, alien contact, and time travel

New Mexico Science Fiction and Fantasy

A Very Large Array

George R.R. Martin

In 1946 werd boven New York een buitenaards virus losgelaten dat het DNA herschreef van iedereen die het infecteerde. Het doodde negentig procent van de bevolking, muteerde negen procent in ernstig misvormde monsters, en gaf één procent superkrachten. Jaren later schrijven achtentwintig van die buitengewone mensen, Azen genaamd, zich in voor een nieuw soort realityprogramma. Deelnemers worden in vier kleuren ingedeeld voor een wedstrijd die ze alleen in Hollywood zo hadden kunnen bedenken. Als alle verliezers zijn weggestemd, moet de enige echte Amerikaanse Held overblijven. Maar terwijl de weken verstrijken, worden de overgebleven deelnemers opeens ruw wakker geschud door misselijkmakende gebeurtenissen in het Midden-Oosten. Hun zinloze spelprogramma lijkt nu behoorlijk onnozel, vergeleken met wat de machteloze mensen die daar hun leven op het spel zetten moeten doorstaan. Kan deze groep verwende en onwetende ‘beroemdheden’ een wezenlijk verschil maken in de wereld? En hoeveel van hen kan het echt wat schelen? Het Wild Cards-universum werd in 1987 bedacht door Game of Thrones-bestellerauteur George R.R. Martin en Melinda Snodgrass. Meerdere bekende fantasy- en sciencefictionauteurs schrijven mee aan de boeken.

Het spel der spellen

High Stakes

William, Prince of Orange, learns that it is not political machinations but black magic that is keeping him from the throne, and he enlists the powers of The White Goddess to stem the rising tide of darkness

Melinda M. Snodgrass

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