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Three Kings is the next anthology in George R. R. Martin''s ongoing Wild Cards alternate-history series.

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 Fistsan organization of jokers led by the Green Man

Three Kings

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      Publisher Tor Books
      Published 21 March 2023
      ISBN-13 9781250167941
      978-1250167941
      ISBN-10 1250167949
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Three Kings is the next anthology in George R. R. Martin''s ongoing Wild Cards alternate-history series.

      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 Fistsan organization of jokers led by the Green Man

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