I have read this many times. Brilliant stuff. A duel between alien ships, an experiment gone wrong, at least from our point of view. Born out of a superhero gaming group, Wild Cards is a shared world anthology series, in the main.
An alien experimental virus is released on Earth after Jetboy, a famous fighter pilot hero fails to stop it. This is the first story in this anthology "Thirty Minutes Over Broadyway".
For those affected by the virus, 90 are killed, 9 are deformed in some mannter, and 1 is given some sort of superhuman or enhanced ability.
This causes chaos and carnage, and changes history forever.
Various elements of American history do still happen, and the HUAC terror still happens, as one story involving Dr Tachyon, an alien telepath who comes to Earth to try and help. This leads to the tragedy of Golden Boy and the Four Aces see "Witness" by Walter Jon Williams.
The Turtle, Croyd Crenson, Yeoman, Fortunato, Captain Trips and Puppetman all appear here.
It will take some of them working together to defeat a menace.
If you have any sort of interest in the subject, this book is a must read.
Wild Cards 01 : 01 Prologue - George R. R. Martin
Wild Cards 01 : 02 Thirty Minutes Over Broadway! - Howard Waldrop
Wild Cards 01 : 03 The Sleeper - Roger Zelazny
Wild Cards 01 : 04 Witness - Walter Jon Williams
Wild Cards 01 : 05 Degradation Rites - Melinda M. Snodgrass
Wild Cards 01 : 06 Interlude One - George R. R. Martin
Wild Cards 01 : 07 Shell Games - George R. R. Martin
Wild Cards 01 : 08 Interlude Two - George R. R. Martin
Wild Cards 01 : 09 The Long Dark Night of Fortunato - Lewis Shiner
Wild Cards 01 : 10 Transfigurations - Victor Milán
Wild Cards 01 : 11 Interlude Three - George R. R. Martin
Wild Cards 01 : 12 Down Deep - Edward Bryant and Leanne C. Harper
Wild Cards 01 : 13 Interlude Four - George R. R. Martin
Wild Cards 01 : 14 Strings - Stephen Leigh
Wild Cards 01 : 15 Interlude Five - George R. R. Martin
Wild Cards 01 : 16 Comes a Hunter - John J. Miller
Wild Cards 01 : 17 Epilogue: Third Generation - Lewis Shiner
Wild Cards 01 : 18 Appendix - Misc. Material - George R. R. Martin
Tachyon arrival denial.
3.5 out of 5
Jetboy: No Jolson, no Joy.
5 out of 5
Croyd Crenson waken, wedding shaken.
4.5 out of 5
Jack Braun, Four Aces Golden Judas Boy.
5 out of 5
Brain Trust no more.
4.5 out of 5
McCarthy's Wild Card Act disintegration.
3.5 out of 5
Turtle power, Tachyon cower. Team-up!
5 out of 5
Jokertown Clinic.
3.5 out of 5
Tantric power discovered, evil uncovered.
5 out of 5
Lizard King glad Mark Meadows is Radical.
5 out of 5
Hiram's food is Aces High.
3.5 out of 5
Bag lady and cat lady discovers that there really are werealligators in the sewers, and the odd mafioso.
5 out of 5
Jokertown activist politics.
3.5 out of 5
Puppetman, killer manipulator.
4.5 out of 5
Aces! quotes.
3.5 out of 5
Yeoman roamin'.
5 out of 5
Kid Dinosaur.
4 out of 5
Wild Card science.
5 out of 5
5 out of 5
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