Wild Cards

21 hrs. 0 min.

Language Russian

Author George Martin

Narrator BIGBAG

Description

The name of George R. R. Martin became iconic even before his famous “A Song of Ice and Fire.” His fame was brought by “Wild Cards,” a multi-volume mosaic novel—the genre’s invention, for which credit belongs to the writer personally. The plot is both complex and simple at the same time. Earth becomes a testing ground where one of the opposing parties ruling the Galaxy carries out an experiment with a new gene virus. A representative of the other party, Tacyon, tries to prevent the experiment—yet the consequences are unpredictable. He fails, and a planetary catastrophe erupts on Earth: most of the population dies, and the survivors become either aces—possessors of superhuman abilities who retain their former appearance—or jokers—superhumans physically disfigured. The story of the unrelenting war between aces and jokers forms the substance of the cult mosaic novel “Wild Cards.”