Category Archives: Wild Cards NewsMISSISSIPPI ROLL RELEASEDThe 24th installment of the Wildcards mosaic anthologies was released on December 5th in the USA and Australia. The rest of the world will need to wait a little longer. MISSISSIPPI ROLL features the work of Stephen Leigh, John Jos. … Read More Tor offers big ebook deal on Wild CardsHaven’t tried Wild Cards yet? Here’s your chance. Tor is now offering an ebook bundle special on first five volumes of Wild Cards Available for only $39.99 from https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N4FQ1X1 or http://us.macmillan.com/books/9780765397188 Here’s your chance to find out who Gregg … Read More High Stakes PublishedPerfect for old fans and new readers alike, High Stakes (Wild Cards) delves deeper into the world of aces, jokers, and the hard-boiled men and women of the Fort Freak police precinct in a pulpy, page-turning novel of superheroics and … Read More WILDCARDS Television DealThe Wild Cards Are Coming…to Television! We are proud to announce that Universal Cable Productions has acquired the rights to adapt the beloved mosaic novels Wild Cards and will begin development of the series into a what we all hope will … Read More Wild Cards ExcerptA Long Night at the Palmer House by John Jos. Miller Part 1 It had been one hundred and forty-two years since John Nighthawk had been inside the Palmer House, and then it had been the earlier incarnation of … Read More HIGH STAKES DELIVEREDThe latest Wild Cards mosaic novel, HIGH STAKES has been officially delivered to Tor. HIGH STAKES is the third and concluding volume in the triad that began with FORT FREAK and continued with LOWBALL. The contributing writers this time around … Read More New WILD CARDS StoryAvailable to read Now at the link below read the newest Wild Cards story, by Walter Jon Williams. The star (well, she’d say she was, at least) is Pop Tart, last seen in INSIDE STRAIGHT and the first season of … Read More LOWBALL RELEASEDTor’s Newest Wild Cards edition is out and receiving good reviews. This edition of Wild Cards takes place in the depths of Jokertown, where residents have mysteriously gone missing. The authorities are unwilling to investigate, except for a fresh lieutenant … Read More JOKERS WILD RELEASEDSeptember 15, 1946 was the first Wild Cards Day, the day that Jetboy met Dr. Tod in the skies over Manhattan, and the wild card virus was released onto an unsuspecting world. September 15, 1986 was the 40th anniversary of that … Read More INSIDE STRAIGHT E-book Sale $2.99For a limited time only, Tor is offering the ebook of INSIDE STRAIGHT — first volume of the “next generation” of Wild Cards books — for only $2.99. This promotion will only last until November 1, so get your copy … Read More NEW WILDCARDS STORYBrand new, never-before-published Wild Cards story posted on Tor.Com. Written by Cherie Priest it’s called “The Button Man and the Murder Tree.” With ‘cover art’ provided by the amazing John Picacio. This one is a sort of ‘origin story’ for … Read More ACES ABROAD released in RUSSIAACES ABROAD the fourth volume of the wild Cards series has been released in Russia. The first three volumes of the Russian translation of Wild Cards were published back in 2005-2006. After a long hiatus, the aces and jokers are … Read More JOKERS WILD February 2014 ReleaseThe next release in Tor’s ongoing series of Wild Cards reissues has been scheduled for February 2014 in trade paperback. JOKERS WILD is the third volume in the overall series, and the concluding volume of the first triad. The cover … Read More LOWBALL Delivered to Tor BooksThe twenty-second volume in the ongoing Wild Cards series of shared world anthologies and mosaic novels is complete and has been delivered to our editors at Tor. The lineup for this edition of Wild Cards entitled LOWBALL is as follows: … Read More WILD CARDS COMING TO BRAZILGeorge R.R. Martin has signed with publisher LeYa for Brazilian (Portugese) editions of all twenty-two WILD CARDS volumes! Leya has done an outstanding job producing GRRM’s fantasy books and we can’t wait to see every one of the twenty-two WILD … Read More Wild Cards FreebieIn 1987 George R.R. Martin parented another captivating universe in the multi-author shared-world of Wild Cards. Tor.com has made it possible for you to have a free taste of this strange and wonderful brew with the story “When We Were … Read More WILD CARDS RETURNSGood news Wild Cards fans! LOWBALL, the twenty-second volume in the series and part two of the current triad that began with FORT FREAK, is nearing completion. Thanks to the talented writers and co-editors George R.R. Martin and Melinda Snodgrass, … Read More ACES HIGH FOR XMASNow available for pre-order via Amazon, B&N, or your favorite local bookstore is volume two in our long-running Wild Cards series, ACES HIGH, scheduled for publication on December 20. No new stories this time around, alas, but the new edition … Read More WILD CARDS 1 REISSUEDLook! Up in the sky! It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s… yes, actually, it IS a plane. Jetboy’s plane. And a whole bunch of blimps. Wild Cards is back. I’m talking volume one, originally published in 1987, the book … Read More FORT FREAK DELIVEREDFORT FREAK, volume twenty-one in the ongoing Wild Cards series, has been delivered to our editors at Tor Books. Six hundred and eight pages of Jokertown goodness. After the wide-ranging global storylines of the Committee triad, FORT FREAK returns to … Read More FORT FREAK IS COMINGWILD CARDS is headed back to its roots. The early volumes in our long-running shared-world anthology series largely centered around Manhattan, especially the parts of the Bowery and Lower East Side that became known as Jokertown. More recent entries, however, … Read More TWO FROM GREEN RONINThe good folks at Green Ronin Games have been busy of late, with two new releases that should be of interest to my readers. For all the Wild Cards fanatics out there, they have just released Wild Cards: All-In, A … Read More JETBOY FLIES AGAINLook up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a blimp!! No, it’s FIVE blimps strung together!!! And here comes Jetboy… That was how the Wild Cards series began, way way back in 1987 before some of you were born. … Read More GREEN RONIN RELEASES NEW WILD CARDS RPGTime to dust off those twenty-sided dice again. Wild Cards has returned to role-playing once again, after a hiatus of more than fifteen years. Last week at Gencon in Indianapolis, Green Ronin Games rolled out its highly anticipated Wild Cards … Read More Tor Schedules BUSTED FLUSH for DecemberThis should be a merry Christmas for Wild Cards fans. Tor has scheduled Busted Flush, the second installment in the new triad that began with Inside Straight, for publication in December. The nineteenth volume in the overall series, Busted Flush … Read More BUSTED FLUSH DELIVEREDBusted Flush, the second in the trilogy of new Wild Cards mosaic novels that began with Inside Straight (out this January at a bookstore near you), and the nineteenth volume of the overall series, has been completed and delivered to … Read More MUTANTS & MASTERMINDS MEETS WILD CARDSOnce upon a time, along about twenty years ago, the Wild Cards series grew out of a role-playing game… and now, many books and many stories later, we’re thrilled and excited to announce that we’re going home to that world … Read More INSIDE STRAIGHT PROMO AT SAN DIEGO COMICONWild Cards fans — be sure and visit the Tor booth at this year’s San Diego Comicon, to register for their special convention drawing. Tor will have half a dozen glossy 11 x 17 inch posters of the gorgeous Michael … Read More INSIDE STRAIGHT DELIVEREDInside Straight, the latest installment in our long-running WILD CARDS series of mosaic novels, has been delivered to editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden at Tor. Originally launched in 1987, WILD CARDS has outlasted all the other shared worlds of the 80s … Read More NEW DEAL FOR WILD CARDSWe can’t die yet. We haven’t seen The Jolson Story. The WILD CARDS series is back in business. We’ve just signed a contract with Tor Books for a new triad of WILD CARDS mosaic novels, to be titled Inside Straight, … Read More WILD CARDS Good News and BadI have good news and bad news for fans of the long-running Wild Cards series of shared world anthologies and mosaic novels. Good news: the seventeenth volume in the series, John J. Miller’s novel Death Draws Five, was released by … Read More NEW WILD CARDS BOOK SCHEDULED FOR JANUARYThe latest installment in the Wild Cards series, John J. Miller’s solo novel DEATH DRAWS FIVE, has been scheduled for a January release in hardcover by iBooks. DEATH DRAWS FIVE is the seventeenth volume in the overall series, and the … Read More THE RETURN OF JOKERS WILDWild Cards fans take note: iBooks has just released a new mass market paperback edition of the third volume in the series, Wild Cards III: Jokers Wild. The story of Wild Cards Day, 1986, the fortieth anniversary of the release … Read More WILD CARDS VI: ACE IN THE HOLEiBooks has released their reprint of WILD CARDS VI: ACE IN THE HOLE ACES ABROADWild Cards fans: ACES ABROAD, was released in September by iBooks. DEUCES DOWN DEBUTSThe long wait is over for Wild Cards fans. DEUCES DOWN, the first new Wild Cards book in seven years, was released this month by iBooks, in hardcover and ebook versions. DEUCES DOWN features seven brand new tales from the … Read More Wild Cards III: Jokers WildWild Cards III: Jokers Wild (Paperback, US) now available from iBooks. THE WILD CARDS ARE BACKNew editions of the first eight volumes of the original Bantam series are being released by iBooks, in trade paperback and ebook editions. The first two volumes — WILD CARDS and ACES HIGH — have already been released, and should … Read More |