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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: George R. R. Martin presents Wild Cards: Pairing up
    sub title: tales of love & lust from the world of the Wild Cards
  name:
    name part: Kloos, Marko
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Martin, George R. R.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Murphy, Kevin (Kevin Andrew)
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Rowe, Christopher
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Snodgrass, Melinda M.
    name part: 1951-
    role:
      role term: contributor.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 428 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: An alien virus ravages the world, its results as random as a hand of cards. Those infected either draw the black queen and die, draw and ace and receive superpowers, or draw the joker and are bizarrely mutated. Nevertheless, human nature reigns supreme. And one fo the most enduring human drives is the search for love. Aces and jokers alike both want to find it, or have lost it or perhaps just want to use it for personal gain. Within these stories, you will find love, Wild Cards style-crazy, unconventional, touching, strange and oh-so-familiar. Here we have a jewel thief who seduces a popular actor just so she can track down a long-lost treasure, a teenager trapped in the body of giant snail who attempts to win his love Cyrano de Bergerac style, a fierce bodyguard whose romance at an isolated resort takes an unexpected turn, a police detective with PTSD who finds healing in an unlikely place, a young roadie whose vacation crush is the woman sent to protect him, an older man reflecting back on his great lost love, a man who discovers his purpose in life after meeting a beautiful butterfly woman and a young hero who has been awarded the hideous name of Hero McHeroface finding some solace in the arms of a beautiful astrologer. Pairing Up is the Wild Cards take on love, finding it, seeking it, losing it or achieving it, as aces and jokers enter into the highest stake game of all: gambling on their heart's desire.
  table of contents: Trudy of the apes / by Kevin Andrew Murphy -- Cyrano d'escargot / by Christopher Rowe -- In the forests of the night / by Marko Kloos -- The wounded heart / by Melinda M. Snodgrass -- Echoes from a canyon wall / by Bradley Denton -- The long goodbye / by Walton Simons -- What's your sign? / by Gwenda Bond and Peter Newman -- The wolf and the butterfly / by David Anthony Durham.
  note: edited by George R.R. Martin ; assisted by Melinda M. Snodgrass and written by Kevin Andrew Murphy, Christopher Rowe, Marko Kloos [and others].
  subject:
    topic: Ability
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Mutation (Biology)
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Science fiction, American
  subject:
    topic: Viruses
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PS648.S3 G46 2023
  classification: 813/.0876208
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Wild cards (Series)
  identifier: 0593357868
  identifier: 9780593357866
  identifier: 9780593357873
  identifier: 2022038255
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 221014
    record change date: 20250816185348.2
    record identifier: in00004742419