{"id":111,"date":"2017-05-13T12:07:20","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T12:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2017\/05\/13\/rereading-jokers-wild\/"},"modified":"2017-05-13T12:07:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T12:07:20","slug":"rereading-jokers-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2017\/05\/13\/rereading-jokers-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Rereading JOKERS WILD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wild Cards Reread continues over at Tor.com with Katie Rask&#8217;s insightful look at JOKERS WILD, the third volume in the series and our first full mosaic.<\/p>\n<p>Head on over and join the fun at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/2017\/05\/08\/when-sex-death-and-kid-dinosaur-collide-wild-cards-iii-jokers-wild\/\">http:\/\/www.tor.com\/2017\/05\/08\/when-sex-death-and-kid-dinosaur-collide-wild-cards-iii-jokers-wild\/<\/a>  We&#8217;d love to know your thoughts.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/460336_800.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>I am, of course, far from objective, but INMNSHO this was one of the strongest volumes in the series, and a groundbreaking one &#8212; the first time (not the last) that we would attempt to innovative (if exhausting) mosaic format, where the stories are woven together to form a seven-way collaborative novel.  No shared world had ever done that before, and so far as I know, none has been so insane as to attempt it yet.  Except for us.  Wild Carders are nothing if not mad.<\/p>\n<p>JOKERS WILD is also the climax of our first triad, and offers a final resolution to a major storyline.<\/p>\n<p>So head on over and join Jetboygirl, Fortunato, Hiram Worchester, Roulette, Sewer Jack, Bagabond, Wraith, Yeoman, Demise, Popinjay, the Astronomer, and the rest of the merry gang. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wild Cards Reread continues over at Tor.com with Katie Rask&#8217;s insightful look at JOKERS WILD, the third volume in the series and our first full mosaic. Head on over and join the fun at http:\/\/www.tor.com\/2017\/05\/08\/when-sex-death-and-kid-dinosaur-collide-wild-cards-iii-jokers-wild\/ We&#8217;d love to know your thoughts. I am, of course, far from objective, but INMNSHO this was one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,7],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}