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245 00 $aInside straight /$cedited by George R.R. Martin ; assisted by Melinda M. Snodgrass ; and written by Daniel Abraham [and others].
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bTor,$c2008.
300 $a384 pages ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aThe wild cards series
500 $a"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
500 $a"A Sci Fi essentials book"--Jacket.
520 1 $a"In 1946 an alien virus that rewrites human DNA was accidentally unleashed in the skies over New York City. It killed 90 percent of those it infected. Nine percent survived to mutate into "jokers," tragically deformed creatures. One percent, the "aces," gained superpowers. The Wild Cards shared-universe series, created and edited since 1987 by George R. R. Martin, along with Melinda Snodgrass, is the tale of the history of the world since then - and of the heroes and villains among that 1 percent." "Now a new generation has come of age, a generation born into the world of the wild card. Aces are just movie stars to them, and jokers are as commonplace as the poor. They are the computer kids, the hip-hop generation, new aces for the new millennium. They know the world needs saving, and they're the ones to do it. The old heroes messed it up. Now it's the new kids' turn." "In 2008, the highest-rated show on TV is American Hero, which pits twenty-one young aces against one another in a series of tasks and stunts. Among the judges is Peregrine, whose production company created the show. Her son, John Fortune, works as an assistant on the set and mourns for the ace powers he lost when his father cleansed the virus from his system... until Osiris of the Living Gods tells him that perhaps that door is not forever closed." "For outside the studio, the world is in dire need of heroes. Within a shockingly short time, John Fortune will be reborn to a new state of being and will lead the new generation of aces from the soundstages of Hollywood to a climactic confrontation in Egypt, at the side of the Living Gods."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aScience fiction, American.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118637
700 1 $aMartin, George R. R.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80160390
700 1 $aSnodgrass, Melinda M.,$d1951-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87872073
700 1 $aAbraham, Daniel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005042820
830 0 $aWild cards.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0743/2007035053-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0743/2007035053-d.html
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