Wild Cards #13 Card Sharks & #14 Marked Cards (paperbacks)

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WILD CARDS -mosaic novel serie (#13-14)
Baen SF (1993-1994)
Edited by George R. R. Martin

Into a world hungry for peace, comes a spaceship ferrying chaos...
An alien bomb is detonated above the planet, shedding an indiscriminate gene virus on an Earth barely recovered from the horrors of World War ll. The result: Wild Cards. ACES blessed with superhuman powers and JOKERS cursed with bizarre physical and mental disfigurements.
This is their story.

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#13 Card Sharks (book 1 of a New Cycle)

Someone is trying to wipe out the jokers – those shadowy behind-the-scenes global players – and they must fight back before they are completely destroyed.

Contents:

- A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes by Michael Cassutt
- The Ashes of Memory by Stephen Leigh
- A Wind from Khorasan by Victor Milán
- The Lamia's Tale by Laura J. Mixon
- Cursum Perficio by Kevin Andrew Murphy
- The Crooked Man by Melinda M. Snodgrass
- 'Til I Kissed You by William F. Wu
- The Long Sleep by Roger Zelazny
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#14 Marked Cards (book 2 of a New Cycle)

Hannah Davis and her group of heroes race to expose the Card Sharks, an evil conspiracy whose ultimate goal is the wholesale destruction of those afflicted with the Wild Cards virus.

Contents:

- Paths of Silence and of Night by Leanne C. Harper
- The Color of His Skin by Stephen Leigh
- My Sweet Lord by Victor Milán
- A Dose of Reality by Laura J. Mixon and Melinda M. Snodgrass
- Two of a Kind by Walton Simons
- A Breath of Life by Sage Walker
- Feeding Frenzy by Walter Jon Williams