Wild Cards: Wild Cards I : Expanded Edition (Series #1) (Edition 1) (Paperback)

from renbedell

A collection of short stories all by different authors but set in the same world where an alien virus as turned some people into Aces (superpowers), Jokers (disfigured), or just dead. It starts in the 1940s and the stories are in chronological order until the 1980s. Just like any set of short sto...

from JeremyPreacher

This was fascinating, and even more so to be reading it so long after it came out (it was originally published in 1986, and boy does it show.) I can definitely see it as a strong factor in the turn towards "gritty" superhero stories, as well as a commentary on race, class, the AIDS crisis, and va...

from rondoctor

Surprisingly good. This first volume of Wild Cards is a series of short stories by a variety of authors, but it is written as if it is a novel, with good continuity. I greatly enjoyed it and now I'm reading the second volume. George R.R. Martin did an exceptional job of editing, and also wrote so...

from rondoctor

Surprisingly good. This first volume of Wild Cards is a series of short stories by a variety of authors, but it is written as if it is a novel, with good continuity. I greatly enjoyed it and now I'm reading the second volume. George R.R. Martin did an exceptional job of editing, and also wrote so...