A group of SF's most imaginative writers, who share a love of the larger-than-life comic book superheroes, presented each other with a challenge to compose stories featuring these superheroes and villains as flesh-and-blood people, living through this century's turbulent history. Contributors include Roger Zelazny, Kevin Andrew Murphy, Michael Cassutt, and five others.

Someone is trying to kill all the jokers--nothing less than genocide will do. For decades they have been the secret shadow players on the global scene, the puppet masters hidden behind the curtains, patient, cunning, moving inch by inch toward their terrible dream--a world "cleansed" of the wild card disease and its victims. And now their time is almost come...

CARD SHARKS
A Wild Cards Mosaic Novel
Edited by George R.R. Martin and written by:
ROGER ZELAZNY MELINDA M. SNODGRASS WILLIAM F. WU
LAURA J. MIXON
KEVIN ANDREW MURPHY VICTOR MILAN
STEPHEN LEIGH
MICHAEL CASSUTT