Lowball: A Wild Cards Mosaic Novel, by Wild Cards Trust, George R. R. Martin, Melinda Snodgrass
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Decades after an alien virus changed the course of history, the surviving population of Manhattan still struggles to understand the new world left in its wake. Natural humans share the rough city with those given extraordinary―and sometimes terrifying―traits. While most manage to coexist in an uneasy peace, not everyone is willing to adapt. Down in the seedy underbelly of Jokertown, residents are going missing. The authorities are unwilling to investigate, except for a fresh lieutenant looking to prove himself and a collection of unlikely jokers forced to take matters into their own hands―or tentacles. The deeper into the kidnapping case these misfits and miscreants get, the higher the stakes are raised.
Edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin and acclaimed author Melinda M. Snodgrass, Lowball is the latest mosaic novel in the acclaimed Wild Cards universe, featuring original fiction by Carrie Vaughn, Ian Tregillis, David Anthony Durham, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Mary Anne Mohanraj, David D. Levine, Michael Cassutt, and Walter John Williams.
Perfect for old fans and new readers alike, Lowball delves deeper into the world of aces, jokers, and the hard-boiled men and women of the Fort Freak police precinct in a pulpy, page-turning novel of superheroics and mystery.
Lowball: A Wild Cards Mosaic Novel, by Wild Cards Trust, George R. R. Martin, Melinda Snodgrass- Amazon Sales Rank: #874104 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-03
- Released on: 2015-11-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.85" h x 1.19" w x 4.23" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 448 pages
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"Perhaps the most original and provocative of the shared worlds books." --Peter S. Beagle, author of "The Last Unicorn ""Emotionally powerful. "Wild Cards" deals up the variety of short fiction without losing the continuity of a novel." --"Seattle Times ""A delightfully imaginative speculation." --"Toronto Star"
Praise for the "Wild Cards" series: "The shared-world series known as Wild Cards has had a long and illustrious history of contributors and achievements."--SciFi.com
About the Author
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN is the author of the international bestselling Song of Ice and Fire, which has been adapted by HBO into the television phenomenon Game of Thrones. Martin has won the Hugo, Nebula, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy Awards for his numerous novels and short stories.
MELINDA M. SNODGRASS has worked on staff on numerous shows in Hollywood, including Star Trek: The Next Generation, and she has written pilots and feature films. In addition to being coeditor of Wild Cards, she also writes urban fantasy under the name Phillipa Bornikova.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. A middling book, as befits its middle position By Tom Negrino Lowball is the second book in the triad of modern Wild Cards books the began with Fort Freak. The Fort is the nickname for the NYPD Jokertown precinct, and this book continues telling the stories of the cops, criminals, and hangers-on of the cop shop. While the individual stories are fine, the tight focus on what's happening in Jokertown and environs tend to make the overall narrative seem less consequential than in previous Wild Cards novels. And because Lowball is the middle of three books, there's a sense that it is cranking the plot machinery to set up the stakes for something we'll REALLY care about. In fact, it's not until the very last page of the book that a Really Big Bad is even hinted at, at which point the book simply ends. The trouble is, we don't even know enough about the threat to make it a satisfying cliffhanger.While there are wild carders aplenty in the book, far too much space is taken up following cops who are nats (not affected by the virus). And frankly, these cops' lives just aren't as interesting as the folks with the powers. I enjoyed the parts of the book that involved the characters from the American Hero reality show, though the main one, a reunion of four main characters from the show's first season, felt shoehorned into the overall plot.Lowball is certainly worth a read for the Wild Cards completist, but shouldn't be the first book of the series you read (you really need to start with Inside Straight to understand all the characters you'll meet in these pages). The next and final volume of this triad should, I hope, ramp up the stakes and bring things to the satisfying conclusion that Lowball lacks.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. I'd read and liked Fevre Dream By WOSIFU There I was back in 1987 perusing the science fiction and fantasy shelves at Waldenbooks, looking for some entertainment on a hot summer night, when I stumbled upon Wild Cards. George R. R. Martin? I'd read and liked Fevre Dream. Super powered people? I was a comic book fan before I could read. Alternate history? I was a history major! Sold! I devoured it and every Wild Cards since, even the two oddball ibooks that interrupted the long, sad hiatus after Zelazny's death. When the series was revived by Tor, I rejoiced. And was not disappointed. But this one . . . the weakest of the whole lot. I was always impressed by how Mr. Martin and co. kept the mosaic approach working with only the rare contradiction, but the seams are definitely showing on this one. The "mystery" wasn't very mysterious. The characters not that interesting. Stuntman, for example, is just a weaker Carnifex/Wolverine/Claire Bennett whose power has been misfiring. In fact, there are very few super powers on display here, which I know was intentional, but is not what this Wild Cards fan wanted to see. Worst of all, the book ends on a sudden and unexpected cliffhanger, with virtually no clues for loyal readers to contemplate and debate while a sequel comes together. I'll still read the next one, but the bar has definitely been lowered.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. That does not mean it is a bad book, it is still good and well-written by ... By Jan Johansen I've followed the Wild Cards series since I became aware of them in the mid-80s. I've devoured every book, or comic tie-in. This was probably the weakest in the series. That does not mean it is a bad book, it is still good and well-written by skilled authors. The characterization is good, the characters interesting and engaging, the writing skilful and polished.However...in many cases the stories don't belong in this book, or world. The decision to do a cycle focusing on the jokers and deuces (very low-powered people) of this world was interesting, but instead we spend most of the time with the nat police of the Jokertown precinct, removing us another step from the series central premise. One of the cop plots that ran through the book turned out to be totally irrelevant to the main plot.The books ending is exceptionally abrupt, wrapping up almost nothing, and giving no closure to most of the threads of the book. We don't actually learn what was up with some of them. And many of the main characters are left in various states of unresolved peril or mid-action at the end. The ending, in short, completely sacrifices being a good book for the sake of overdone cliffhanger.The writers should have been reminded that if you don't want to write about people with superpowers, that's OK, but then you shouldn't be submitting to a series about people with super-powers. The general sense of embarrassment with the series main premise has been a flaw from very early on, from what felt like a need to make the stories excessively "adult" and grim in the first half of the series, to the later Committee books that featured many characters vastly underpowered for what they apparently were doing.
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