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Help me find a book series like The Witcher or Assassin's Appentice, I need to forget this world right now! Go to town with recommendations! (beehaw.org)
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[โ€“] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

i got one no one seems to have heard of, but its a series by a bunch of writers, and it was stitched together by none other than George RR Martin..

The WildCard series... i just love the different writing styles across the different characters...and its an amazing universe.. i highly recommend it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Cards

the short is: alien race f's up a non trivial percent of the human population with a virus.. most die. what neat is the mish-mash of history with a new minority of deformed humans. i think it starts in ~1947 running through the 90s.

British writer Neil Gaiman met with Martin in 1987 and pitched a Wild Cards story about a character who lives in a world of dreams. Martin declined due to Gaiman's lack of prior credits at the time. Gaiman went on to publish his story as The Sandman.

[โ€“] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 2 points 11 months ago

I was aware of the Wild Cards collection as a sidenote in Martin's publishing history, but this is the first time I've seen it recommended by a real person!