**Superheroes and villains do battle over the human heart in this delightful anthology featuring all-new stories from a wide range of contributors, all set in the Wild Cards universe, where an alien virus mutates some and grants superpowers to others, created by the #1 _New York Times_ bestselling a
George R. R. Martin Presents Wild Cards
โ Scribed by George R. R. Martin; Melinda M. Snodgrass; Kevin Andrew Murphy; Marko Kloos; Bradley Denton; Peter Newman; Gwenda Bond; David Anthony Durham; Christopher Rowe
- Book ID
- 111833202
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2023
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 553 KB
- Series
- Wild Cards 31
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780593357873
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โฆ Synopsis
Superheroes and villains do battle over the human heart in this delightful anthology featuring all-new stories from a wide range of contributors, all set in the Wild Cards universe, where an alien virus mutates some and grants superpowers to others, created by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Game of Thrones.
An alien virus ravages the world, its results as random as a hand of cards. Those infected either draw the black queen and die, draw an ace and receive superpowers, or draw the joker and are bizarrely mutated.
Nevertheless, human nature reigns supreme. And one of the most enduring human drives is the search for love. Aces and jokers alike both want to find it, or have lost it . . . or perhaps just want to use it for personal gain. Crazy, unconventional, touching, strange, and oh-so-familiar, this is love, Wild Cards-style.
Within these stories:
โข A jewel thief seduces a popular actor just so she can track down a long-lost...
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