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Now in development for TV: Rights to develop Wild Cards for TV have been acquired by Universal Cable Productions, the team that brought you The Magicians and Mr. Robot, with the co-editor of Wild Cards, Melinda Snodgrass as executive producer. 

Since a strange alien virus created the superhuman beings known as Aces and Jokers four decades ago, they have struggled for respect and recognition.  Now they are key players in a presidential convention torn by hatred and dissent.  Assassins stalk the halls of the convention and one of the candidates plans to use his secret Wild Card power for evil. 

Travel on a journey of intrigue and adventure in this collaborative novel edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin and written by five of science fiction's most imaginative talents: Stephen Leigh, Victor Milan, Walton Simons, Melinda M. Snodgrass, and Walter Jon Williams. 

"Delicious.  Everything I hoped for.  The character interactions and plot twists have exactly the complexity, surprise, and unsentimental realism I'd expect out of a George R. R. Martin project." — Austin Grossman, author of Soon I Will be Invincible on Inside Straight

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George R.R. Martin

GEORGE R. R. MARTIN is the author of the international bestselling Song of Ice and Fire.  Martin has won the Hugo, Nebula, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy Awards for his numerous novels and short stories.  He is the series editor behind the Wild Cards superhero universe.