Aces Abroad
Edited by George R.R. Martin.
Let the secret history of the world be told – of the alien virus that struck Earth after World War II, and of the handful of survivors who found they now possessed superhuman powers. Some were called Aces, endowed with powerful mental and physical prowess. The others were jokers, tormented by bizarre mind or body disfigurements. Some served humanity. Others wreaked terror. And now, forty years later, as the planet once more faces a critical challenge, a group of politically conscious Wild Cards set out on a daring mission to the four corners of the earth to uncover the fate of Aces and Jokers in other lands – it is a journey destined to amaze, terrify, amuse and enlighten us all.
Contents:
- The Tint of Hatred: Prologue by Stephen Leigh
- From the Journal of Xavier Desmond: November 30 by George R. R. Martin
- The Tint of Hatred: Part One by Stephen Leigh
- From the Journal of Xavier Desmond: December 1 by George R. R. Martin
- Beasts of Burden by John J. Miller
- From the Journal of Xavier Desmond: December 8 by George R. R. Martin
- The Tint of Hatred: Part Two by Stephen Leigh
- Blood Rights by Leanne C. Harper
- From the Journal of Xavier Desmond: December 15 by George R. R. Martin
- The Tint of Hatred: Part Three by Stephen Leigh
- From the Journal of Xavier Desmond: December 29 by George R. R. Martin
- The Tint of Hatred: Part Four by Stephen Leigh
- From the Journal of Xavier Desmond: January 16 by George R. R. Martin
- Down by the Nile by Gail Gerstner-Miller
- From the Journal of Xavier Desmond: January 30 by George R. R. Martin
- The Tint of Hatred: Part Five by Stephen Leigh
- From the Journal of Xavier Desmond: February 7 by George R. R. Martin
- The Teardrop of India by Walton Simons
- Down in the Dreamtime by Edward Bryant
- From the Journal of Xavier Desmond: March 14 by George R. R. Martin
- Zero Hour by Lewis Shiner
- From the Journal of Xavier Desmond: March 21 by George R. R. Martin
- From the Journal of Xavier Desmond: April 10 by George R. R. Martin
- Puppets by Victor Milán
- Mirrors of the Soul by Melinda M. Snodgrass
- Legends by Michael Cassutt
- From the Journal of Xavier Desmond: April 27 by George R. R. Martin
George R. R. Martin
George Raymond Richard Martin (born 1948 in Bayonne, New Jersey), is an American author and screenwriter of science fiction, horror, and fantasy. He majored from Norhwestern University in 1970.
Martin sold his first science fiction story in 1971 and has been writing professionally since then. He spent ten years in Hollywood as a writer-producer, working on various television series and feature films. In the mid ‘90s he returned to prose, his first love, and began work on his epic fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire. He has been in the Seven Kingdoms ever since. Whenever he’s allowed to leave, he returns to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he lives with lovely Parris, and two cats named Augustus and Caligula, who think they run the place.
Wild Cards
Into a world hungry for peace, comes a spaceship ferrying chaos...
An alien bomb is detonated above the planet, shedding an indiscriminate gene virus on an Earth barely recovered from the horrors of World War ll. The result: Wild Cards. ACES blessed with superhuman powers and JOKERS cursed with bizarre physical and mental disfigurements.
This is their story.
Wild Cards consists of twenty-nine books, and the series is set to expand with the upcoming release of one more book. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
