Dead Man's Hand

New York, NY: Bantam. Very Good. 1990. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. 0553285696 . This is a mass market paperback book. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is a bit of light rubbing and bumping to the spine ends, corners and edges. There is one light crease to the spine of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. "Wild Cards began as a two-year-long[1] campaign of the Superworld role-playing game, gifted to George R. R. Martin by Victor Milán, in Albuquerque, New Mexico; the players were science fiction writers, including Gail Gerstner-Miller, Milán, John J. Miller, Melinda M. Snodgrass, and Walter Jon Williams, and Martin served as gamemaster. Because of the amount of time and creative energy put into the campaign, Martin initially thought to write a novel on his character, Turtle. However, he realized this would have "rescued one character from SuperWorld campaign, but would have meant discarding all the rest". Since the game had been built by a group, he felt it should be a shared universe anthology, which were popular at the time. Martin invited other writers he believed would be interested in the universe, including Roger Zelazny, Lewis Shiner, Pat Cadigan, Howard Waldrop, Edward Bryant, and Stephen Leigh. " (from Wikipedia) .