Deuces Down
Wild Cards Series, Book 16
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November 16, 2020
Originally published in 2002, the entertaining 16th installment to the Wild Cards series of mosaic novels (after Black Trump) sees 10 authors exploring the concept of the Deuces—people who’ve manifested minor superpowers after surviving the largely fatal wild cards virus. While the original release featured unlinked stories, this edition adds an interstitial tale from Carrie Vaughn, “Age of Wonders,” which creates a connective thread involving a young journalist who seeks out stories about Deuces while searching for her unknown father. She uncovers a trip to the Moon in Michael Cassutt’s “Storming Space,” relives the 1969 World Series in John Jos. Miller’s “Four Days in October,” and meets an infamous band of Jokers in Keven Andrew Murphy’s “With a Flourish and a Flair.” Two more new inclusions, “Tasty” by Mary Anne Mohanraj and “Dry to the Touch” by Caroline Spector, add further appeal for series fans. In showcasing the role of the often unsung Deuces, these stories provide fascinating insight into the Wild Cards universe, but taken as a whole they still feels disjointed. More an anthology than a cohesive novel, this is an enjoyable, if nonessential, part of the series.
December 1, 2020
This latest in Tor's reprints of the Wild Cards series (after Dealer's Choice, 2020) takes the original 2002 collection and, with the addition of several new stories and a framing narrative by Carrie Vaughn, reworks it into a ""mosaic novel."" Raleigh Jackson, the child of Deuce Aurora, gets a job at the famed ACES, a magazine focusing almost entirely on superpowered Ace or physically deformed Joker news and gossip. Raleigh quickly stumbles across the stories of Deuces throughout history. While building these stories into a blog, Raleigh is also plagued by finding the identity of her virus-positive father, as well as her own status as a Latent, whose card could turn and possibly kill her at any time. Interspersed with Raleigh's narrative are stories that illuminate established Wild Cards canon, such as Melinda Snodgrass' ""A Face for the Cutting Room Floor,"" about centaur Joker Bradley Finn's acting career, or are entirely new stories, like Caroline Spector's tale of a Deuce whose power to turn blood into dust makes him beholden to the Vegas Mob in ""Dry to the Touch."" Highly recommended for fans of the series, though new readers will want to start at the beginning (with Wild Cards, 1987).
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