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Jan 5, 2021 · An anthology about the Wild Cards who are underestimated, overlooked: the Deuces. But it’s the quiet ones you have to watch out for. In this revised collection of classic Wild Cards stories, the spotlight is on the most unusual Wild Cards of them all―the Deuces, people with minor superpowers.
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This is an anthology of unrelated stories spanning four decades. The focus is on 'Deuces' - the 'almost-aces' with negligible powers that are often more trouble than they're worth.
This cover is a departure from the rest of the covers in the series. No characters from the stories appear on the cover, and the title of the book is not immediately apparent. The title is, in fact, printed upside-down in a gloss ink over the words "Wild Cards". The art here was done by comic book artist Jim Steranko.
As originally published, this is the first book of the series to have no unifying plot. Although all the stories contain the central theme of Deucesbeing the main protagonists, the stories are otherwise unrelated. The 2021 reprint adds three new stories, one of them an interstitial story forming an overall narrative for the book. To suit this, the ...
Wild Cards XVI: Deuces Down. An alien biological weapon was accidentally detonated over New York City, killing countless numbers of people. Those who survived, soon began to wish they had died once they discovered that they had been forever mutated by the virus unleashed in the blast.
Jan 1, 2002 · An alien biological weapon was accidentally detonated over New York City, killing countless numbers of people. Those who survived, soon began to wish they had died once they discovered that they had been forever mutated by the virus unleashed in the blast.
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Deuces Down is the next Wild Cards anthology collection about George R. R. Martin's alternate superhero history An anthology about the Wild Cards who are underestimated, overlooked: the Deuces.
Deuces Down is the next Wild Cards anthology collection about George R. R. Martin's alternate superhero history. An anthology about the Wild Cards who are underestimated, overlooked: the Deuces. But it’s the quiet ones you have to watch out for.
