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Wild Cards: Sleeper Straddle edited by George RR Martin (book review).
‘Wild Cards’ numbers either 32 or 33, there is a rare explanation of what this particular poker hand is. I’m calling this book…
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March 2026
February 2026
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Wild Cards: House Rules (book 32) edited by George RR Martin (book review).
This thirty-second ‘Wild Cards’ book, ‘House Rules’, is a mosaic of six authors, as their stories are blended into a complete novel. Stephen…
June 2025
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A Song For Lyra by George RR Martin (book review)
Back in the early 1970s, George RR Martin had short stories in a variety of American SF magazines at the time. There are…
April 2025
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George RR Martin Presents Wild Cards: Pairing Up: An Anthology (book review).
In 2023, the ‘Wild Cards’ book franchise moved back to Bantam Books. In that year, they released two graphic novels and the first…
January 2025
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Full House (A Wild Cards novel book 30) edited by George R.R. Martin (book review).
‘Wild Cards’ book 30, ‘Full House,’ is a bit of an oddity. Ten novelettes/short stories that were originally released on the Internet and…
December 2024
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Joker Moon (A Wild Cards novel book 28) edited by George R.R. Martin (book review).
‘Joker Moon’ presents a fresh perspective, as it doesn’t feature any writers or their characters from the previous book. OK, the Green Man…
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Knaves Over Queens (A Wild Cards novel book 27) edited by George R.R. Martin (book review).
The 27th volume of ‘Wild Cards,’ ‘Knaves Over Queens,’ is the start of a new sequence, following how the Wild Card virus affected…
May 2022
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Dreamsongs: A RRetrospective (Book 1 of 2) by George R. R. Martin (book review).
I don’t mind the naked women, it’s the blood and gore in ‘Game Of Thrones’ that put me off watching the series and…
March 2019
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One-Eyed Jacks (A Wild Cards Novel book 8) edited by George RR Martin (book review).
Slipping back into the past with an early volume of ‘Wild Cards’, the eighth book ‘One-Eyed Jacks’ even sees a younger Jack Creighton…
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Texas Hold’Em (A Wild Cards Novel book 28) edited by George RR Martin (book review).
The 28th book of ‘Wild Cards’, ‘Texas Hold’Em’, follows a group of musical joker teens from Xavier Desmond High School Jazz Band aka…
July 2018
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Low Chicago: A Wild Cards Novel book 27 edited by George RR Martin (book review).
Throughout all the ‘Wild Cards’ books, despite using poker terms for their titles, this is the first time we actually see a poker…
April 2018
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Wild Cards VII: Dead Man’s Hand by George RR Martin and John Jos. Miller (book review).
It was revealed in the previous ‘Wild Cards’ book, ‘Ace In The Hole’, that Chrysalis had been murdered. Literally smashed to death by…