HeartBurnKid: Nihilist's Guide to Reticent Entropy: 1. It's on Syfy, which means it will suck.

Syfy did bring us Farscape, Battlestar Galactica, and Stargate Atlantis, so Wild Cards will suck and/or end prematurely.

Oh, it's George RR Martin? So that means there are 985 characters, 983 of which die within 15 pages of meeting them.

#11 It's not very good.

Nihilist's Guide to Reticent Entropy: 1. It's on Syfy, which means it will suck.

They did a good job recently with Alphas, but this seems rather large in scope; too big to portray well on a budjet.

But rest assured that throughout the course of the series there is indeed all sorts of sordid phantasmagorical events: centaur sex, mutant rape, guttings, a woman who kills people with her vagina, dismemberments, butt sex with dead people, and what I can only describe as the most horrifying blowjob scene I have ever read outside of FFF. I shudder to even remember it.

Okay, then. I'd assume they would just edit around a lot of that, but after the blow-job scene in Game of Thrones...that foley guy certainly had his work cut out for him. I haven't read the books...was the anal corpse rape that integral to the plot?

InmanRoshi: Does he talk about food for page upon page in this series?

As somoene who just finsihed a summer (and then some) project of reading all of the Fire and Ice novels, and overall quite enjoyed it, I can't tell you how little appetite I have for starting a new GRRM series.

You & I are in the same boat. Only learned of the series last winter & read through all the books. I enjoyed the first 4 but the last one draaaaagged & then ended with a pile of suck. Tyrion was a great character until he ended up across the Narrow Sea. Now I couldn't care less what becomes of him. Or freakin' Theon, whom Martin felt the need to redeem, apparently. I'm not relishing the idea of another series by him, either.

/Sucks, too, since I'm in the market for a new series to read. I'm almost done with Red Mars and don't like it. I doubt I'll pick up the other 2 any time soon.

Bennie Crabtree: ayrsayle: quizzical: TFA: The premise: in 1946, an experimental virus from another planet is released on Earth over Manhattan. This virus is extremely unpredictable and thus becomes known as "the Wild Card." 90% of victims die (known as "drawing the black queen"), and 90% of those survivors become hideous deformed mutants ("Jokers").

10% survive, and the vast majority of survivors are left with horrible defects? That sounds very predictable.

The mortality rate is predictable, "unpredictable" in this case is in the sense that it's very unlikely any two survivors will have similar mutations. You might come out of it constantly oozing goo all over, or turn into a centaur, or have transparent skin... or the ability to create science fiction devices like sentient androids (that only you can make since it's the talent propping them up, not the actual tech) and rayguns.

Why is this connected to a virus? It just sounds like the Marvel universe.

Seriously. Take out the virus concept and you've got Mutants and Morlocks.

Free Range Fetus Farmer: Um, Martin didn't write a lot of the wild cards stories, he edited them. A bunch are self contained.

Would be amusing to see the Fortunato storyline.

The Fortunato stories utterly repelled me. They seemed to exist solely as an excuse for Lewis Shiner to write the
most whacked out and offensive graphic sex scenes.

I only read the first book, and did enjoy some of the other stories, but since the second book starts off with
another Fotrunato story, I never finished it and didn't ever go back to them. And, since SyFy is dead to me
once EUREKA is gone, I won't bother to watch thus unless it gets really rave reviews.

Trivia note: the dates and location of the Wild Card conference mentioned in the appendix of Volume 1 were
the same ones as the Lunacon SF Convention, which was where I bought the books.