Dear Friends,

With all the new attention focused on the Wild Cards books, GRRM and company has decided to design an official website, which includes background on all the writers, a guide to the books, a slew of other helpful information on the series.

Here’s a link:

http://www.wildcardsworld.com/

The site will be updated regularly.  

The series—which consists of twenty-three books thus far (HIGH STAKES to be released later this month), with three more under contract—has been sold to NBC’s Universal Cable Productions, which has been responsible for the critically-acclaimed “Mr. Robot”, “The Magicians”, and “12 Monkeys”.   Development will begin immediately, with Melinda  Snodgrass (“Star Trek: The Next Generation”, “The Outer Limits”) to executive produce.  

This big alternate world series, tells the stories of a large cast of superhero characters who are the survivors of an airborne alien virus released over the skies of Manhattan in 1946.  Of the people infected, 90% died, 9% were horribly disfigured and deformed, and a lucky 1% were blessed with extraordinary powers.  The 1% are known as “Aces”—the luckiest draw.  The disfigured 9% are known as “Jokers”—the losers of the bunch.  

"Most of all it is a universe, as large and diverse and exciting as the comic book universes of Marvel and DC (though somewhat grittier, and considerably more realistic and more consistent), with an enormous cast of characters both major and minor," Martin writes.

The series is currently published in the UK, Germany, Italy, France, Brazil, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, the Czech Republic and Turkey.

With the large number of volumes involved, Wild Cards did a reboot of the series beginning with volume 18, introducing a “second generation” cast of characters.  Some publishers have begun with #1, others with #18.