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Low Chicago / edited by George R. R. Martin ; assisted by Melinda M. Snodgrass ; written by Saladin Ahmed, Paul Cornell, Marko Kloos, John Jos. Miller, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Kevin Andrew Murphy, Christopher Rowe, Melinda M. Snodgrass.
"The stakes were already high enough at Giovanni Galante’s poker table that night in Chicago. Poker. Dealer’s choice. Seven players. A million-dollar cash buy-in. But after a superpowered mishap, the most high-profile criminals in the city are scattered throughout the past and their schemes across time threaten the stability of the world. Perfect for current fans and new readers alike, Low Chicago is an all-new time travel adventure that highlights the criminal underworld of 1920s Chicago, featuring a fresh cast of characters from the Wild Cards universe." -- Provided by the publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780765390561
- ISBN: 0765390566
- Physical Description: 429 pages : 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Tor Books, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A Tom Doherty Associates book." -- Title page. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | A long night at the Palmer House / John Jos. Miller -- Down the rabbit hole / Kevin Andrew Murphy -- The motherfucking apotheosis of Todd Motherfucking Taszycki / Christopher Rowe -- A bit of a dinosaur / Paul Cornell -- Stripes / Marko Kloos -- The sister in the streets / Melinda M. Snodgrass -- A beautiful façade / Mary Anne Mohanraj -- Meathooks on ice / Saladin Ahmed. |
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| Subject: | Time travel > Fiction. Chicago (Ill.) > 20th century > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Science fiction. |
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| Gibsons Public Library | SF FIC MART (Text) | 30886001055496 | Adult speculative fic hardcover | Volume hold | Available | - |
| 100 Mile House Branch | LOW (Text) | 33923005983980 | Science Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2018 June #1
The Wild Cards universe, in which an alien virus created the superpowered "aces" and the physically mutated "jokers" alike, is no stranger to bizarre and astounding phenomena. At a Chicago poker game stacked with powerful aces, one attendee's unpredictable powers fling the players haphazardly through time, along with their bodyguards and anyone in the crossfire. Now, the immortal John Nighthawk and Croyd Crenson, the ever-changing Sleeper, must find and retrieve the scattered players, some of whom are more willing to return than others. Bringing together a strong group of authors, ranging from long-time Wild Cards contributors Melinda Snodgrass, Kevin Andrew Murphy, and John Jos. Miller to fresh recruits Saladin Ahmed and Mary Anne Mohanraj, Low Chicago weaves a story that travels from the neat present to the troubled 1968 Democratic convention to 1920s gangland and even Chicago's prehistoric past. The twenty-fifth Wild Cards novel should not only satisfy long-time fans of the series but also provide newcomers to it an engaging and exciting entry into its world. Copyright 2018 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2018 May #2
A genre-hopping, time-jumping, crowd-pleasing chain novel under the curation of old master Martin, he of Game of Thrones fame. Low Chicago is a card game, but it's also a fine description of the demimonde-haunting characters who turn up at the Palmer House at the beginning of this octoauthorial extravaganza. One is John Nighthawk, "a smallish black man in a dark pin-striped suit with a discreet kidskin glove on his left hand." A discreet glove? Well, roll with it. Nighthawk, who's spent time on the road and time in the big city, has had unusual powers since 1946. Others gathered around the card table include an actor who starred alongside John Wayne and a gigantic mutant half of whom is "an anthropomorphic version of a Bengal tiger." You'd think that someone with such distinctive markings would call attention to himself in the Loop, but when said someone is under the aegis of a gangster named Giovanni Galante and a moll named Cynder, "an ace with a potent flame-wielding abili ty," people tend to look the other way. When the story gets into time travel in earnest, it's sometimes a little hard to keep track of where we are and why we're there with, say, presidential candidate John F. Kennedy at one minute or, at another, a fellow bent on rubbing out a teenage Galante before Galante himself kills for the first time ("Mob guys got some kind of fucked-up ritual where you kill somebody when you turn sixteen?"). Indeed, the characters themselves don't seem to know themselves, as when said half-tiger finds himself wondering "whether to answer sixteen years ago or in seventy-two years" when asked when he acquired his curious appearance. Not all the pieces hang together, and some are better than others, but the authors do a respectable job overall of tangling with the ineffable. Is it sci-fi? A viral thriller? Yes and no, and while not for every taste, a pleasure for the experimentally minded. Copyright Kirkus 2018 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - PW Annex Reviews : Publishers Weekly Annex Reviews
In the upbeat 26th installment (after
Copyright 2018 Publishers Weekly Annex.Mississippi Roll ) of the anthology series exploring an alternate history where an alien virus accidentally released in 1946 transforms its survivors into supervillainous jokers, superheroic aces, or a combination thereof, eight authors introduce a new wrinkle: time travel. An accident during a high-stakes poker game leaves many of its participantsâincluding shape-shifting assassin Lilith, half-tiger bodyguard Khan, and power-mimicking Abigailâstranded in various moments in Chicago's past. It's up to the immortal John Nighthawk and the fan-favorite Sleeperâcurrently capable of temporal manipulationâto rescue them before history is irrevocably altered. Every chapter is solidly entertaining; standouts include Saladin Ahmed's "Meathooks on Ice," Christopher Rowe's "The Apotheosis of Todd Taszycki," and Mary Anne Mohanraj's "A Beautiful Facade," all of which allow their protagonists plenty of room for growth and change. Longtime fans will enjoy surprise appearances by previous notables, sometimes in drastically altered circumstances, and this entry also works well as a standalone. It's a treat for any fan of superhero stories.(June)
