by George R.R. Martin, Wild Cards Trust
I haven't read more than a snippet or two from George R.R. Martin (I could not get into A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1), so it wasn't George's reputation that lured me into picking this up. It was actually Daniel Abraham's Wild Card short story in an anniversary anthology from Tor. He...
Two things have kept me from reading this series for quite some time:1) The "mosaic" novel aspect: I felt that switching authorial voices every chapter would dilute the storytelling.2) I wasn't sure how much I'd enjoy "superhero" stories without the sequential art.For reservation number 1, it wasn't...
I started this book last year for the one and only reason that it was directed by George Martin, and I was in love with his style from his now well-known and massively-mediatized series, A Song of Ice and Fire . I loved that series, every second of it, so here I was bouncing up and down when I hear...
Always a sense of retro-geekiness reading the Wild Card series but it's all good!
This is an excellent treatment of the pulp scifi genre. I especially like the way it embraces pulp without being self-referential. Breaking the story up between different writers also helps add to the feeling that the world of the Wild Card virus is a dynamic world, with numerous goings-on that can ...
This is an anthology of short stories, set in a shared universe, edited by George RR Martin (but note he does contribute stories as well as editing).The Wild Cards universe begins in 1946, the same as ours up until that point, then an alien virus known as the 'wild card' virus is unleashed over New ...
I enjoyed this mosaic novel/anthology a lot more than I expected. Even knowing Martin was the editor of this book, I was surprised at how dark this was. Authors certainly didn't shy away from hard decisions or from taking the characters to unexpected places. Another surprise was how much history ...
This shared-world superhero series was fantastic, at least in the beginning. It did the "superheroes in the real world" concept better than I've seen since, and the characters were fantastic. Later, as the authors made it darker and darker, each book became "Who will be raped, tortured, and butchere...
PROLOGUE - George R. R. MartinThis one was actually told like it is an interview of three of characters from the Wild Cards series. Well, the early part of the series, at least. They talk about the turning point that lead to their version of history, as opposed to ours. It's really a great way to...
I had to hold off on this-only because I have too much going on right now. I was enjoying it immensely and will get back to it ASAP
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