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  <title><![CDATA[Wild Cards (Wild Cards Book 1)]]></title>
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Contents
Wild Cards &#8226; (2003) &#8226; interior artwork by Mike Zeck
Prologue (Wild Cards I) &#8226; (1987) &#8226; short fiction by George R.R. Martin
Thirty Minutes Over Broadway! &#8226; (1987) &#8226; novelette by Howard Waldrop
The Sleeper &#8226; (1987) &#8226; novelette by Roger Zelazny
Witness &#8226; (1986) &#8226; novelette by Walter Jon Williams
Degradation Rites &#8226; (1987) &#8226; novelette by Melinda M. Snodgrass
Interlude One &#8226; (1987) &#8226; short fiction by George R.R. Martin
Shell Games &#8226; (1987) &#8226; novelette by George R.R. Martin
Interlude Two &#8226; (1987) &#8226; short fiction by George R.R. Martin
The Long, Dark Night of Fortunato &#8226; (1987) &#8226; shortstory by Lewis Shiner
Transfigurations &#8226; (1987) &#8226; novelette by Victor Mil&#225;n
Interlude Three &#8226; (1987) &#8226; short fiction by George R.R. Martin
Down Deep &#8226; (1987) &#8226; novelette by Edward Bryant and Leanne C. Harper
Interlude Four &#8226; (1987) &#8226; short fiction by George R.R. Martin
Strings &#8226; (1987) &#8226; novelette by Stephen Leigh
Interlude Five &#8226; (1987) &#8226; short fiction by George R.R. Martin
Comes a Hunter &#8226; (1987) &#8226; novelette by John J. Miller
Epilogue: Third Generation &#8226; (1987) &#8226; short fiction by Lewis Shiner
The Science of the Wild Card Virus: Excerpts from the Literature &#8226; (1987) &#8226; short fiction by Victor Mil&#225;n</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first book in one of my favorite series of all time, one of only a handful of books that I've read more than twice.<br/><br/>&quot;30 Minutes Over Broadway&quot; is a classic. &quot;Degradation Rites&quot; makes me cry every time I read it. Picking this up again after a few years away is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50384470">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A marvelous idea: an event happens that unleashes mutations in susceptible people. These mutations can be horrible or they can give you superpowers. The lucky--the Aces--get the powers while the unlucky--the Jokers--get short shrift. Taking this idea, various authors pen short stories filled with va...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38406844">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This shared-universe series is interesting, telling how superheroes came to be.  In most cases, each volume of this series is written by a several different writers, each one focusing on only one or two characters.  This can make for wide swings in the quality, but it is interesting, and I've had fu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65734345">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Right after WWII ends, an alien virus is released above New York city. This Wild Card virus infects tens of thousands, killing 90%, and mutating 10%. 90% of those mutated become Jokers; either disfigured physically, given powers that hust themselves, or worse. The remaining 10% that survive, a bare ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14285351">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book of short stories set in one universe but written by different people. It's cool 'cause the basic idea is that the &quot;wild card virus&quot; got introduced to humanity from some aliens and it affected each person a different way. A lot of them died, a lot of them were transformed, an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31238478">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book when I was about 10. But why? It was like a novel version of a comic book, and the idea was vaguely similar to Watchmen - revisionist history of the 20th century with superheroes affecting American history. I think I read it on a vacation.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After WWII, a biochemical virus is explodated over new york, affecting people in different ways. it makes some people &quot;aces,&quot; meaning they develop superhuman positive abilities, and others &quot;jokers,&quot; meaning they develop deformities or negative changes. over the next several decad...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28247232">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Uneven but groundbreaking. For some reason I hadn't heard of this series until after I wrote my first two original hero/superhero novels, even though this one was first published in '86, and included a story by one of my heroes, Roger Zelazny (I'm giving it an extra star just for that). Certainly no...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70746647">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Cheesy fun sci-fi.  It feels like an old nickel-and-dime comic book put into novel form with more mature themes.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good throwback fare that covers similar ground as Watchmen or even Heroes on TV. Wild Cards is a short-story collection assembled as a &quot;mosaic novel&quot; to be read front-to-back. Unfortunately it's front-loaded, builds a good head of steam in the first half and then the back half just limps a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50869805">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read it when I was like a kid has a xmen like theme to it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[takes a bit to get used to the format but it is quite good]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Tor book]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Imagine sitting around with your friends, playing D&amp;D, using your imagination to create characters and worlds...now imagine that you and all your friends are authors and you have the ability to translate those characters into a new and imaginative world that you can share with other people. That's &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19827229">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read in college. A really great series; I'd love to get another copy and reread them all.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Love the ensemble writing in these series of books. The characters develope over time and the story spreads through the years and through the many worlds that these authors imagine.]]></body>
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    <review id="24481219">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[More guilty pleasure reading -- everything I ever learned about Tantric Sex Magic, I attribute more to this book than to Sting.<br/><br/>Enjoy. ]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Jul 16 01:33:04 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 16 13:56:11 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Found in a second-hand comic/book store in Portland some time in the summer of 1988.  Kind of a beaten copy, but loved it nonetheless.  ]]></body>
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  <date_updated>Tue Jun 12 14:11:17 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm supposed to read &quot;Sand Kings,&quot; which is a short story, but I have no idea which anthology it's in. So, note to self. I says do not miss.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Feb 05 11:15:26 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Feb 06 08:52:34 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this book at a flea market and was impressed by the story, and how many different authors were involved.]]></body>
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