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03045aam a2200529 i 4500 001 5E2B4D9CE23911EC9D80461122ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220602010055 008 210917s2022 nyu 000 1 eng d 010 $a 2021046238 020 $a 1250167930 020 $a 9781250167934 035 $a (OCoLC)1305090741 040 $a TJT $b eng $e rda $c TJT $d CGP $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCLCA $d IOU $d SILO 043 $a e-uk-en 082 04 $a 813/.0876208 $2 23 245 00 $a Three kings : $b a wild cards mosaic novel / $c edited by Melinda M. Snodgrass ; assistant editor, George R.R. Martin ; and written by Mary Anne Mohanraj, Peter Newman, Peadar Guilin; Melinda M. Snodgrass, Caroline Spector. 246 3 $a 3 kings 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Tor, $c 2022. 300 $a 234 pages ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a Wild cards ; $v 28 500 $a Series and numeration from NoveList website. 500 $a "A Tom Doherty Associates book." 520 $a "The next anthology in George R.R. Martin's ongoing Wild Cards alternate-history series, Three Kings. 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 rumored 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 Fists-an organization of jokers led by the Green Man-are becoming more militant. And Babh, goddess of war, sees opportunities to sow strife and reap blood..."--Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Kings and rulers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Inheritance and succession $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Viruses $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mutation (Biology) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Good and evil $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Science fiction. 651 0 $a England $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Dystopian fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Science fiction. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Snodgrass, Melinda M., $d 1951- $e author. $e author. 700 1 $a Martin, George R. R., $e editor. 700 1 $a Mohanraj, Mary Anne, $e author. 700 1 $a Newman, Peter $c (Fantasy fiction author), $e author. 700 1 $a OÌ Guilin, Peadar, $e author. 700 1 $a Spector, Caroline, $e author. 830 0 $a Wild cards (Series) ; $v 28. 941 $a 3 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010031629.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20220630014537.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220602010347.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5E2B4D9CE23911EC9D80461122ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search