Wild Cards Times Three

Start with Inside Straight. You can always go back and check out the earlier books later.

Why is everyone always so eager to discuss my death?

In any case, Wild Cards is a trust. I am the editor and trustee, not the owner. If I should die or retire, a new editor and trustee would be voted in by the members.

Stopped after 8 , did you?

So did a lot of other readers, I confess.

It does appear that we predicted a caliphate a decade or so before ISIS. Not to mention the madness of the Iraq War... though the details are notably different.

As for the Islamic Fundamentalist villains, I should point out that our long list of villains also includes Roman Catholic Fundamentalists, Evangelical Protestant Fundamentalists, Soviet communists, greedy capitalists, aliens from space, different aliens from space, Third World dictators, Freemasons (Egyptian Rite), corrupt cops, misguided idealists, sadistic teenagers, sadistic senators, leftist revolutionaries, right-wing reactionaries, would-be world conquerers, lying lawyers, amoral television executives, a couple of undead, a vampire of sorts, and most recently a dark god from another dimension.

With twenty-three books under our belts, and three more to come, our appetite for villainy is voracious.

(But we do try for a certain level of nuance, though I will not claim that we have already succeeded).

Only Saladin knows for sure.

No. This is not a traditional triad. This is a bit of a change-up, we're doing what are in essence three stand-alones.

We'll return to the triad format with subsequent contracts. The next two are already in the planning stages.