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Wild Card Volume XXXI - Pairing Up
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Published By
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Bantam
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First Published
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July 2023 (hardcover)
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Format
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Anthology
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Pages
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428
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ISBN
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978-0593357866
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Pairing Up is the thirty-first novel in the Wild Cards series edited by George R.R. Martin and Melinda M. Snodgrass. Set throughout Wild Cards history, the stories all concern the theme of finding, seeking, losing, or achieving love.
Synopsis[]
Stories[]
Pairing Up contains the following stories:
| Story | Author | Description |
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| "Trudy of the Apes" | Kevin Andrew Murphy | 1957: Magpie finagles her way onto the Mexican set of Golden Boy's Tarzan television show while searching for lost treasure. |
| "Cyrano d'Escargot" | Christopher Rowe | 1981: Trevor Fitzgerald romances Peregrine on behalf of 14-year-old Theodorus Witherspoon. |
| "In the Forests of the Night" | Marko Kloos | 2010: While serving as a druglord's bodyguard at a resort in the Colombian jungle, Khan meets an intriguing woman. |
| "The Wounded Heart" | Melinda M. Snodgrass | 2013: Still suffering from his experience in Kazakhstan, Francis Black spirals downward as Rikki struggles to help him. |
| "Echoes From a Canyon Wall" | Bradley Denton | 2019: Ink travels to the Grand Canyon to prevent El Alacràn from forcibly recruiting Amplifier for SCARE. |
| "The Long Goodbye" | Walton Simons | 2020: Mr. Nobody recalls the days of Fortune Films in 1913 Chicago and his time lost romance with Irina Adamczyk. |
| "What's Your Sign?" | Gwenda Bond and Peter Newman | 2021: Two aces, Stella Sumner and Stuart Hill, are set up on an awkward public date for charity. Hounded by an interested public and a threatening stalker, they soon discover their romance might not be a pretense after all. |
| "The Wolf and the Butterfly" | David Anthony Durham | 2023: Bacho, an aimless young secret ace, falls for Adesina, who is attending college in Reno, Nevada. |
Trivia[]
- This novel marks the return of the Wild Cards series to Bantam, its original publisher.
- The Bantam cover depicts Ink and Amplifier from the story, Echoes From a Canyon Wall.
| Previous Novel Wild Cards Volume XXX: |
Current Wild Cards Volume XXXI: Pairing Up (novel) |
Following Novel Wild Cards Volume XXXII: |
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