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Three Kings
A Wild Cards Mosaic Novel (Book Two of the British Arc)
Series: Wild Cards
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Three Kings is the next anthology in George R. R. Martin's ongoing Wild Cards alternate-history series.
In the aftermath of World War II, the Earth's population was devastated by an alien virus. Those who survived were changed forever. Some, known as jokers, were cursed with bizarre mental and physical mutations; others, granted superhuman abilities, became the lucky few known as aces.
Queen Margaret, who came to the English throne after the death of her sister Elizabeth, now lies on her death-bed. Summoning the joker ace Alan Turing, she urges him to seek the true heir: Elizabeth's lost son. He was rumoured to have died as a baby but, having been born a joker, was sent into hiding.
Margaret dies and her elder son Henry becomes king and at once declares he wants to make England an "Anglo-Saxon country" and suggests jokers be sent "to the moon." Dangerous tensions begin to tear the country apart. The Twisted Fistsβan organization of jokers led by the Green Manβare becoming more militant. And Babh, goddess of war, sees opportunities to sow strife and reap blood...
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Three Kings is the next anthology in George R. R. Martin's ongoing Wild Cards alternate-history series. In the aftermath of World War II, the Earth's population was devastated by an alien virus. Those who survived were changed forever. Some, known as jokers, were cursed with bizarre mental and physical mutations; others, granted superhuman abilities, became the lucky few known as...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips Monday
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781250167941
Publisher: Tor Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 21 March 2023
Imprint: Tor Books
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 146.0mm
Height: 224.0mm
Weight: 259g
Pages: 240
About the Author
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN is the author of the acclaimed, internationally bestselling fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, which is the basis of HBO's popular Game of Thrones television series. Martin has won multiple science fiction awards, including four Hugos, two Nebulas, the Bram Stoker, the Locus Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Daedelus, the Balrog, and the Daikon (Japanese Hugo).
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