TEXAS HOLD ‘EM, the third book in the Wild Cards “American Triad” has a cover and a release date: 10/23/18. I don’t have a story in that one, but it features work by fellow Wild Cards writers David Anthony Durham, Max Gladstone, Victor Milan, Diana Rowland, Walton Simons, Caroline Spector, and William F. Wu. The three books of the American Triad (MISSISSIPPI ROLL, LOW CHICAGO, and TEXAS HOLD ‘EM) are all stand-alone mosaic novels, as is the British WIld Cards volume KNAVES OVER QUEENS that’s going to be released in the UK in June. And both the American Triad books and the standalone UK volume are heavily featuring new Wild Cards characters written by the new additions to the Wild Cards consortium.
Look at Caroline Spector’s Amazing Bubbles on the cover! I can’t even be mad at her for cleaning Khan’s clock in the deathmatch we did at Woldcon 74 in Kansas City. Our fight was the first one up, so I was the first one to get dumped from the bracket. In Khan’s defense, the Amazing Bubbles was probably the worst possible opponent for him. She absorbs kinetic energy and turns it into energy bubbles, which are as dense as she wants them to be. And Khan is a bruiser whose tools are pretty much all in the “kinetic energy” department, so he didn’t last long against her. Such are the perils of being a one-trick pony.
It is entirely your fault I can’t get any work done in the afternoons. Last week I bought the first Wild Cards book after one of your recent posts. I read at lunch, and well, it’s difficult to get my head out of that world and back in to my work.