Ace in the Hole (Wild Cards)
Continuing the best-sage alternate universe series edited by George R.R. Martin, the sixth volume in the Wild Cards saga is set in Atlanta of 1988. Terror stalks the halls of the Omni convention center. For a fanatical religious leader has vowed to crush the rights of all Wild Cards, and a hidden...
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Continuing the best-sage alternate universe series edited by George R.R. Martin, the sixth volume in the Wild Cards saga is set in Atlanta of 1988. Terror stalks the halls of the Omni convention center. For a fanatical religious leader has vowed to crush the rights of all Wild Cards, and a hidden Ace wields a terrifying power to determine the outcome of the convention. Against this backdrop of passion and intrigue, a handful of Aces and Jokers struggle for control of a nation. Features stories by Walton Simons, Victor Milan, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Stephen Leigh, and Walter Jon Williams.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780553282535 (0553282530)
ASIN: 0553282530
Publish date: 1990-01-01
Publisher: Bantam
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Science Fiction,
Anthologies,
Speculative Fiction,
Modern,
Short Stories,
Alternate History,
Comics,
Superheroes,
Fiction
This is one of the 'mosaic' novels that rather than being written by numerous authors in the form of short stories that are then edited together, are written by one or two authors with a definite story-line, much more like an ordinary novel. I prefer the numerous authors and their short stories thou...
This book makes up for volume 5 of the series. It's storyline is like a tragedy, and not everybody gets to live happily ever after. It's set during the Democratic Convention in Atlanta in '88, where Senator Hartmann is trying to win the nomination against the far right candidate Reverend Barnett.The...
Political thriller mixed with superheroics, in an alternate-universe retelling of the 1988 Democratic Convention.
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