A pandemic which brings death and superheroes, the hub of a new series conceived by George RR Martin – La Nacion (Argentina)

apocalyptic argument Wild Cards , which has just been acquired to be adapted to the small screen as happened with its successful Game of Thrones covers twenty novels and hundreds of characters written by 30 authors

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on September 15, 1946, after the Second World War, an alien virus is released into the skies of Manhattan, killing 90 percent of the world population. In the jargon of the letters, the victims are “black queens”. The rest of those infected, 9 percent becomes “jokers” (wildcard) and only 1 percent is fortunate and develops extraordinary powers. The latter are the “aces” or wild cards .

This is the central argument of W ild Cards , the series of novels and other formats designed by the creator of Game of Thrones, George RR Martin, along with dozens of other writers, which has just been acquired to become a series on TV by Universal, according to the author himself in his personal blog and confirmed the trade publication Variety .

Martin can not participate personally in the project because of the exclusive agreement has, home of the highly successful Game of Thrones , a few weeks ago confirmed that conclude his story with an eighth season (in 2017 the seventh will be released, with reduced episodes quantity).

Wild Cards was born RPG Superworld , which involved several writers and are based on a terminology letters and the origin of the skills of the characters in them.

Martin describes the project as a series of connected books, anthologies, graphic novels and games They make up a “large, diverse and exciting, with a huge list of main and secondary characters” shared universe.

in creating this great multifaceted work, edited by Melinda M. Snodgrass Martin and since 1987 They have participated thirty authors.

the first novel of this project was published in January of that year and, until the last launch in 2014, have been published 22 books set in that universe. Entitled Wild Cards (Infernal Affairs) the first six novels were published in Castilian by Ocean ( The beginning, Aces on top, wild Jokers, The trip aces, Infernal Affairs and An ace in the hole ). “There are thousands of stories to be told in the world of Wild Cards ,” he wrote the writer in his blog.

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