Wild Cards. Die erste Generation 02 - Der Schwarm

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George R. R. Martin: Wild Cards. Die erste Generation 02 - Der Schwarm (2017, Penhaligon Verlag)

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Published May 22, 2017 by Penhaligon Verlag.

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978-3-7645-3171-3
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"After the alien virus struck humanity in the wake of World War II, a handful of the survivors found they possessed superhuman powers. The Wild Cards shared-world volumes tell their story. Here in book two, we trace these heroes and villains through the tumultuous 1980s, in stories from SF and fantasy giants such as George R. R. Martin, Roger Zelazny, Pat Cadigan, Lewis Shiner, Walter Jon Williams, and others"--

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Volume 2 of the extensive and long running shared universe Wild Cards series. We mostly have the same authors as volume 1, and most of the characters made at least some appearance in volume 1 no matter how small, though there are a few new characters.returnVolume 2 takes place entirely within the 80s, mostly divorced from real world events at the time, which I think the book suffers for to some extent. Social commentary is one of the strong suits of alternate history, and of the first volume. Volume 2 also diverges in that it tries to focus on a single over-arching plot across the various short stories by different authors. In fact, it tries to focus on more than one single, over-arching plot, which again is a bit of a detriment. We have a big bad in the form of Dr. Tachyon's people coming back to earth, but wait, …

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