{"id":6449,"date":"2020-09-01T09:38:49","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T15:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=6449"},"modified":"2020-08-18T19:39:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T01:39:15","slug":"dealers-choice-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2020\/09\/01\/dealers-choice-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"DEALER&#8217;S CHOICE Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last days of the Rox are at hand (again).\u00a0\u00a0 Bloat&#8217;s dream of a joker homeland on Ellis Island faces its ultimate test.<\/p>\n<p>DEALER&#8217;S CHOICE was the eleventh volume in the original run of Wild Cards from Bantam Books, and the third and concluding volume in the Rox Triad.\u00a0\u00a0 This one is a fully interwoven mosaic novel, written by Stephen Leigh, Walter Jon Williams, John Jos. Miller, the late great Edward Bryant, and George R.R. Martin, action from start to finish. Out of print for more than twenty-five years, it returns today in a new trade paperback edition from our friends at Tor, with spectacular new cover art from Michael Komarck (who really should be contending for Hugos).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6450\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/dealer_Page_1-1024x729.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/dealer_Page_1-1024x729.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/dealer_Page_1-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/dealer_Page_1-768x547.jpg 768w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/dealer_Page_1.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bloat, the governor of the Rox, occupies center stage this time around, as he and his strange community of jokers and jumpers fight for survival.\u00a0 Starring with him are fan favorites Modular Man, Carnifex, Wyungare, and the Great and Powerful Turtle.\u00a0 Co-stars and supporting players include Sewer Jack, Legion, Herne the Huntsman, Cameo, Mr. Nobody, Elephant Girl, Mistral and Cyclone, the bodysnatcher, Detroit Steel, Snotman (the <em><strong>REFLECTOR<\/strong><\/em>, dammit!) and many many more.<\/p>\n<p>Copies should be available at any good bookshop still open, or from your favorite on-line bookseller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last days of the Rox are at hand (again).\u00a0\u00a0 Bloat&#8217;s dream of a joker homeland on Ellis Island faces its ultimate test. DEALER&#8217;S CHOICE was the eleventh volume in the original run of Wild Cards from Bantam Books, and the third and concluding volume in the Rox Triad.\u00a0\u00a0 This one is a fully interwoven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[37,7],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6449"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6455,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449\/revisions\/6455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}