Wild Cards VI Ace in the Hole, George R. R. Martin
Wild Cards VI Ace in the Hole, George R. R. Martin
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Wild Cards VI: Ace in the Hole

Author: George R. R. Martin

Narrator: Will Estes, Clancy Brown, Stephen McHattie, Raphael Sbarge, P.J. Ochlan, Emily Rankin

Unabridged: 15 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/28/2017

Categories: Fiction, Superheroes


Synopsis

George R. R. Martin and science fiction's top authors delve into the adventurous superhero universe, Wild Cards, in the sixth book of this fan favorite series.

Since a strange alien virus created the superhuman beings known as Aces and Jokers four decades ago, they have struggled for respect and recognition. Now they are key players in a presidential convention torn by hatred and dissent. Assassins stalk the halls of the convention and one of the candidates plans to use his secret Wild Card power for evil.

Travel on a journey of intrigue and adventure in this collaborative novel edited by #1 New York Timesbestselling author George R. R. Martin and written by five of science fiction's most imaginative talents: Stephen Leigh, Victor Milan, Walton Simons, Melinda M. Snodgrass, and Walter Jon Williams.

Read by Clancy Brown, Will Estes, Stephen McHattie, and Raphael Sbarge, with PJ Ochlan and Emily Rankin

"Delicious. Everything I hoped for. The character interactions and plot twists have exactly the complexity, surprise, and unsentimental realism I'd expect out of a George R. R. Martin project." —Austin Grossman, author of Soon I Will be Invincible on Inside Straight

About The Author

George R.R. Martin sold his first story in 1971 and has been writing professionally since then. He spent ten years in Hollywood as a writer-producer, working on The Twilight Zone, Beauty and the Beast, and various feature films and television pilots that were never made. In the mid ‘90s he returned to prose, his first love, and began work on his epic fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire. He has been in the Seven Kingdoms ever since. Whenever he’s allowed to leave, he returns to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he lives with the lovely Parris, and two cats named Augustus and Caligula, who think they run the place.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kirby on February 10, 2024

Been a while since I’ve read a Wild Cards, and glad I did. Even if I prefer the anthology ones, it was still great to have a couple of favorites to hang with.......more

Goodreads review by Leelas on September 08, 2012

I started this book not knowing what to expect. The Puppetman triad up until this point hadn't had the structure and dramatic build-up of the Astronomer/Swarm triad preceding it. Worrying me more was the fact that I had not yet been sold on the mosaic novel format. Jokers Wild (which, to be fair, wa......more

Goodreads review by Kat on March 13, 2017

Will review soon at www.fantasyliterature.com......more

Goodreads review by JP on November 26, 2019

Ace in the Hole completes the second internal trilogy of the Wild Cards, finishing up many of the plotlines of Aces Abroad and Down and Dirty and bringing the Puppetman plotline to the end. The main plot centers around a presidential convention, which is already a bizarre enough system on its own. B......more

Goodreads review by Mmonchi on August 13, 2021

Ha sido uno de los libros de Wild Cards que más me ha gustado. Al estar escritos como trilogías es normal que cada tres se cierren las tramas que estaban abiertas y se llegue, más o menos, a un final. Aunque en este universo paralelo de los ases y los jokers no hay un final definitivo, la historia s......more