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Wild Card Volume XXX - Full House
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Published By
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Tor Books
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First Published
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August 2022 (hardcover)
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Format
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Anthology
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Pages
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336
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ISBN
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978-1250167958
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Full House is the thirtieth novel in the Wild Cards series edited by George R.R. Martin and Melinda M. Snodgrass. It is the first printed collection of stories that previously were published on Tor.com.
Synopsis[]
Stories[]
Full House contains the following stories:
| Story | Author | Description |
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| "When We Were Heroes" | Daniel Abraham | Curveball finds love in New York City, while Jonathan Hive reels from a Committee mission gone wrong. |
| "Evernight" | Victor Milán | The Darkness searches for her brother in Paris where she becomes entangled in a conflict between Leopard Men terrorists, the Jokers of the Evernight, and the French authorities. |
| "Lies My Mother Told Me" | Caroline Spector | Three years after New Orleans, someone is not happy with Bubbles' return to the public eye, and a new wild card makes trouble for her and Hoodoo Mama. |
| "Nuestra Senora de la Esperanza" | Carrie Vaughn | Recovering from Egypt, Earth Witch drives to Mexico to meet her joker grandmother for the first time. |
| "Discards" | David D. Levine | Tiago Gonçalves is a boy living on the streets of Rio de Janeiro when his card turns. |
| "The Elephant in the Room" | Paul Cornell | Abigail Baker prepares for her circus debut as her boyfriend, Croyd Crenson, nears the beginning of his latest sleep cycle and her difficult mother visits from abroad. |
| "When the Devil Drives" | Melinda M. Snodgrass | Noel Matthews, owner of "Aces in Hand", comes under police scrutiny when the body of his chief competitor is found in the rubble of his company's latest demolition project. |
| "The Atonement Tango" | Stephen Leigh | After disaster strikes a Joker Plague concert, Drummer Boy launches his own investigation. |
| "Prompt. Professional. Pop!" | Walter Jon Williams | A floundering Hollywood career leads Pop Tart into a showbiz caper involving a hit movie. |
| "How to Move Spheres and Influence People" | Marko Kloos | T.K., a teenage boarding school student, discovers she's an ace and her world changes. |
Trivia[]
The cover to the Tor first edition depicts The Darkness in the catacombs of Paris.
| Previous Novel Wild Cards Volume XXIX: |
Current Wild Cards Volume XXX: Full House (novel) |
Following Novel Wild Cards Volume XXXI: |
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