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Launched in 1987, WILD CARDS is one of the longest-running series in the shared worlds and fantasy genre. Mixing pop culture references, real-life sociopolitical issues, and action-packed intrigue—a cast of modern and flawed superheroes is vividly re-imagined by a team of talented writers headed up by #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin and Hollywood screenwriter-turned-author Melinda Snodgrass. The sprawling multi-authored storyline spans civil war in Africa to zombie invasions in New Orleans to off-the-set Hollywood intrigue. Inside Straight (Nov. '08 Tor mm) first introduced the #1 hit reality TV show American Hero, where twenty-four young hot superheroes—aka "aces"—battled one another every week in dangerous tasks and stunts. Meet Curveball, Earth Witch, Pop Tart, Holy Roller, and more. Contestants included a girl whose collection of cute plushies became life-sized deadly versions of themselves, the six-armed drummer man most likely to appear on a Rolling Stones cover, and a fox-tailed Japanese guy who used mythology to create optical illusions. Alliances will form and rivalries explode. But an international crisis in the Middle East would slowly draw all the aces into a global showdown that would eventually separate the true heroes from the rest. Many years ago, a DNA-altering alien virus was accidentally unleashed, killing 90 percent of those infected. Nine percent of the survivors mutated into "jokers," tragically deformed creatures, while the other one percent—the "aces"—found themselves transformed with superpowers. And still others carried the "wild card" within them, never knowing the day when their card would turn. Now, a new generation has come of age, a generation born into the world of the wild card. Computer geeks, hip-hop freaks, rock stars, and Bohemian slackers—these are the new aces for the millennium. They don't really understand what the first generation went through, but they know that the world still needs saving and that their parents didn't quite do the job.