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Loading... Death Draws Five (Wild Cards) (edition 2006)by John J. Miller, George R.R. Martin (Editor)
Work InformationDeath Draws Five by John J. Miller
   Superhero Fantasy (60) No current Talk conversations about this book.  nwhyte | Apr 1, 2023 |    ) Jon_Hansen | Apr 2, 2017 | Good depth to the characters with of course the twist of "who gets the girl" being the cherry on top. John Miller has done a good job with creating some new powers and applying them imaginatively to the players in the story. I have to go with the 3.5 stars as there were some holes in the story that weren't quite explained to my satisfaction, and giving up the messiah/anti-christ role was all to easily glossed over. (  ) captain_geek | Apr 27, 2011 | rivkat | Apr 28, 2006 | no reviews | add a review
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"Edited by bestselling author George R.R. Martin, in the next Wild Cards adventure we follow John Fortune, son of two of the most powerful and popular Aces the world has ever seen. In Death Draws Five, John Fortune's card has finally turned. He's an Ace! And proud of it . . . except that his new powers put him on a collision course with enemies he never knew he had. Is he the new messiah? Or the Anti-Christ? Or is he just a kid who's in over his head and about to drown? It's really quite simple. Mr. Nobody wants to do his job. The Midnight Angel wants to serve her Lord. Billy Ray, dying from boredom, wants some action. John Nighthawk wants to uncover the awful secret behind his mysterious power. Fortunato wants to rescue his son from the clutches of a cryptic Vatican office. John Fortune just wants to catch Siegfried and Ralph's famous Vegas review. The problem is that all roads, whether they start in Turin, Italy, Las Vegas, Hokkaido, Japan, Jokertown, Snake Hill, the Short Cut, or Yazoo City, Mississippi, lead to Leo Barnett's Peaceable Kingdom, where the difference between the Apocalypse and Peace on Earth is as thin as a razor's edge and where Death himself awaits the final, terrible turn of the card"-- No library descriptions found. |
LibraryThing AuthorJohn J. Miller is a LibraryThing Author, an author who lists their personal library on LibraryThing. Current DiscussionsNonePopular covers
 Google Books — Loading...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage: (3.39)
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A full-length novel in GRRM’s Wild Cards series, which I got in the same Humble Bundle as the Amber prequels. The setting is a roughly contemporary America decades after thousands were infected with a virus that gave them varying superhero powers. A former President and a dissident wing of the Vatican believe that the child of two such “Aces” is the Messiah reborn, or possibly the Antichrist. It’s tricky to handle this topic in pulp format, but Miller makes a good fist of it.
Unfortunately I’m going to complain again about the formatting of the electronic book. Most of the chapter headings have been displaced to the end of the book, as a weird appendix, and that means the text is not broken up helpfully for the reader. The publisher, iBooks, folded before the paper version of the book went on general release, but that’s no excuse. It’s not as bad as the Zelazny collection, but it’s not good. Hopefully the recent Tor re-release won’t have the same problem. (