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Wild cards Wild cards 26 Wild cards mosaic 28 Wild cards. 16 Wild cards. 27 Wild cards. 29Summary: As the alien Xenovirus reaches Britain, Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, now gifted with extraordinary longevity, joins with Alan Turing to set up a special organization, the Order of the Silver Helix, to outmaneuver the terrifying mutations of the virus in Britain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KNASummary: In 1946, an alien virus that rewrites human DNA was accidentally unleashed in the skies over New York City. It killed ninety percent of those it infected. Nine percent survived to mutate into tragically deformed creatures. And one percent gained superpowers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARSummary: When students gather at the nation's top high school jazz competition in San Antonio, Texas, the musicians at Xavier Desmond High, teenagers with strange abilities, start going wayward in their efforts to outplay their rivals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TEXSummary: "In this revised collection of classic Wild Cards stories, the spotlight is on the most unusual Wild Cards of them all--the Deuces, or people with minor superpowers. In Deuces Down, iconic celebrities and landmark events are seen in a whole new light, such as John Jos. Miller's exciting 1969 World Series between the Baltimore Orioles and the Brooklyn Dodgers; Michael Cassutt's first moon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEUSummary: Officer Francis, vigilante joker "The Infamous Black Tongue," and ace thief Tesseract are forced by a cold-blooded Baba Yaga into an illegal fight ring as part of her effort to placate a vicious monster from another dimension.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIGSummary: "In Joker Moon, the next Wild Cards adventure from series editor George R. R. Martin, we follow Aarti, the Moon Maid, who can astrally project herself onto the surface of the moon and paint projections across the lunarscape. Theodorus was a dreamer. As a child, he dreamt of airplanes, rockets, and outer space. When the wild card virus touched him and transformed him into a monstrous snail...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOKSummary: "The next anthology in George R. R. Martin's ongoing Wild Cards alternate-history series, Three Kings. In the aftermath of World War II, the Earth's population was devastated by an alien virus. Those who survived were changed forever. Some, known as jokers, were cursed with bizarre mental and physical mutations; others, granted superhuman abilities, became the lucky few known as aces. Queen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2022