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Additional authors

1. Snodgrass, Melinda M., 1951-
2. Martin, George R. R.
3. Mohanraj, Mary Anne
4. Newman, Peter (Fantasy fiction author)
5. Ó Guilin, Peadar
6. Spector, Caroline

Description

1. 234 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

1. "The next anthology in George R. R. Martin's ongoing Wild Cards alternate-history series, Three Kings. In the aftermath of World War II, the Earth's population was devastated by an alien virus. Those who survived were changed forever. Some, known as jokers, were cursed with bizarre mental and physical mutations; others, granted superhuman abilities, became the lucky few known as aces. Queen Margaret, who came to the English throne after the death of her sister Elizabeth, now lies on her death-bed. Summoning the joker ace Alan Turing, she urges him to seek the true heir: Elizabeth's lost son. He was rumored to have died as a baby but, having been born a joker, was sent into hiding. Margaret dies and her elder son Henry becomes king and at once declares he wants to make England an "Anglo-Saxon country" and suggests jokers be sent "to the moon." Dangerous tensions begin to tear the country apart. The Twisted Fists-an organization of jokers led by the Green Man-are becoming more militant. And Babh, goddess of war, sees opportunities to sow strife and reap blood..."--

Series statement

1. A wild cards mosaic novel ; [29]

Uniform title

1. Wild cards (Series)

Alternative title

1. 3 kings

Subject

1. Margaret, Princess, Countess of Snowdon, 1930-2002 > Fiction
2. Turing, Alan, 1912-1954 > Fiction
3. Margaret, Princess, Countess of Snowdon, 1930-2002
4. Turing, Alan, 1912-1954
5. Viruses > Fiction
6. Mutation (Biology) > Fiction
7. Good and evil > Fiction
8. Inheritance and succession > Fiction
9. Good and evil
10. Inheritance and succession
11. Mutation (Biology)
12. Viruses
13. London (England) > Fiction
14. England > London

Genre/Form

1. Alternative histories (Fiction)
2. Fiction.
3. Science fiction.

Call number

1. JFE 22-596

Note

1. "A Tom Doherty Associates book."

Title

1. Three kings / edited by Melinda M. Snodgrass ; assistant editor, George R.R. Martin ; and written by Mary Anne Mohanraj, Peter Newman, Peadar Ó Guilín, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Caroline Spector.

Publisher

1. New York : Tor, 2022.

Copyright date

1. ©2022

Edition

1. First edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. A wild cards mosaic novel ; [29]
2. Wild cards (Series)

Added author

1. Snodgrass, Melinda M., 1951- editor, author.
2. Martin, George R. R., editor.
3. Mohanraj, Mary Anne, author.
4. Newman, Peter (Fantasy fiction author), author.
5. Ó Guilin, Peadar, author.
6. Spector, Caroline, author.

Other form:

1. Online version: Three kings. First edition. New York : Tor, 2022 9781250167927 (DLC) 2021046239

LCCN

1. 2021046238

ISBN

1. 9781250167934 hardcover
2. 1250167930 hardcover

Research call number

1. JFE 22-596