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Title: Deuces Down (Wild Cards Vol XVI) by George Martin, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Michael Cassutt, John J. Miller, Walton Simons, Daniel Abraham, Stephen Leigh, Kevin Andrew Murphy, Timothy Truman ISBN: 0-7434-4505-8 Publisher: I Books Pub. Date: July, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: One story stands out.
Comment: My perspective on this collection of stories is different than the other reviewers,because this is the first and only collection from the Wild Card series that I have read. To be honest, I did not think much of the stories in general, but one story stood out as excellent.
Daniel Abraham's story, "Father Henry's Little Miracle" is the best short story I have read in sometime. The two main characters of the story are Father Henry and Gina. When I had read the story, I really wanted to take Father Henry out for a beer, and I really wanted to sleep with Gina.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Return of a Great Series
Comment: Browsing in a bookstore circa 1986 I came upon the first Wild Cards book. Curious, I bought it . .. and devoured it in a night.That set a patern I would follow with the release of all the subsequent books. The premise, the shared milieu, the contributions of the various writers, the twists, turns, and thrills, it was just so much fun. Like other fans, I was sorry when the series seemed to end, but I understood that the death of Roger Zelazny might want to make the others involved retire the concept. What cause for celebration then to see the Wild Cards resurrected! So, okay, this is not the most exciting entry in the series, dealing as it does with deuces, wild carders who powers seem to be useless. Not so, of course, the authors are quite ingenious at making those useless powers pivotal. There are cameos by some old favorite characters, and the last story, involving a frantic search for a specific top hat, is quite entertaining. But this book does differ from its predecessors in that it does not begin, suspensefully continue, or slam-bang conclude a story arc. I miss that Saturday serial kind of anticipatory excitement, and uneasily wonder if that means the series will not be continued any time soon. If not, too bad. I always left the Wild Cards world wanting more. I always hoped for a story about the Harlem Hammer, or the Troll, and like most fans, wondered whatever happened next to the Radical. C'mon, George R. R. Martin and co., don't leave us hanging!
Rating: 1
Summary: I wish the title was Deuces down, writing down
Comment: Don't get me wrong, I have read all the wild card series to include the Card Sharks series. But these collection of short stories were just plain terrible. I think Deuces Down describes the writers better than it does the stories. The authors just showed that they don't know how to write a short story and most stories you just plain don't care about the chars or the story. I was very mad about one story that wasted my time being a BASEBALL story and almost nothing else.
There is only one story that is only Ok but it includes a well know char from the series. Most of the others were just below average to bad, hoping that putting some named Aces and other chars from the main series would make the story . . . well it didn't.
the sad part is that if you are a fan of the Wild Card Series, you will have to buy this bad read anyway since this is the first fix we have had in over 10 years for our Wild Card addiction.
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Title: MARKED CARDS (WILDCARDS ) by Martin ISBN: 0671722123 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Card Sharks (Wild Cards: Book I of a New Cycle) by Melinda M. Snodgrass, George R. R. Martin, Stephen Leigh, Laura J. Mixon ISBN: 0671721593 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: March, 1993 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Black Trump: Wild Cards (Black Trump, Book 3) by George R.R. Martin ISBN: 0671876791 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: August, 1995 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: TURN OF THE CARDS by Victor Milan ISBN: 0553561529 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 January, 1993 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: DOUBLE SOLITAIRE by Melinda Snodgrass ISBN: 0553294938 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 March, 1992 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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