Aces Abroad

Wild Cards IV

By: George R.R. Martin

Narrated by: Kathleen Turner, Clancy Brown, Adrian Paul, P.J. Ochlan, full cast

Length: 23 hrs and 38 mins

Publisher's summary

The action-packed alternate fantasy returns for a new generation, featuring fiction from number-one New York Times best-selling author George R. R. Martin, Michael Cassutt, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Lewis Shiner, and more - plus two completely new stories from Kevin Andrew Murphy and best-selling author Carrie Vaughn.

Forty years after the Wild Card Virus' release, the World Health Organization decides it's time to take a delegation of Aces, Jokers, politicians, and journalists on a fact-finding mission to learn how other countries are dealing with the virus that reshaped humanity. Leading the team is Gregg Hartmann, a senator with presidential aspirations and a dangerous ace up his sleeve. Joining him is a menagerie of some of the series' best and most popular Wild Cards, including Dr. Tachyon; aces Peregrine and Golden Boy; and jokers Chrysalis, Troll, and Father Squid.

From the jungles of Haiti and Peru to the tumultuous political climate of Egypt, from a monastery in Japan to the streets of the most glamorous cities of Europe, the Wild Cards are in for an eye-opening trip. While some are worshiped as actual gods, those possessing the most extreme mutations are treated with a contempt that's all too familiar to the delegates from Jokertown. New alliances will be formed, new enemies will be made, and some actions will fulfill centuries-old prophecies that make ripples throughout the future of the Wild Cards universe.

Various Roles Read by a Full Cast of Narrators:

• Peregrine read by Kathleen Turner ("Down by the Nile")
• Chrysalis read by Selma Blair
• Sen. Gregg Hartmann/Puppetman read by Clancy Brown
• Yeoman Brennan read by Adrian Paul
• Xavier Desmond read by Armin Shimerman ("From the Journal of Xavier Desmond")
• Dr. Tachyon read by Raphael Sbarge ("Mirrors of the Soul")
• Cordelia Chaisson read by Kasey Lansdale ("Down in the Dreamtime")
• Ti Malice read by Nicholas Guy Smith
• Jayewardene read by Sanjit de Silva ("The Teardrop of India")
• Troll read by Richard Moll ("Warts and All")
• Sara Morgenstern read by Emily Rankin
• Joann Jefferson read by Donnabella Mortel ("Always Spring in Prague")
• Xbalanque read by Noel Bearheart
• Wilfried Molniya read by Stefan Rudnicki ("Legends")
• Hunapu read by Ozzie Rodriguez
• Mackie Messer read by PJ Ochlan
• Misha/Kahina read by Yasmine Barghouty
• Fortunato read by Prentice Onayemi ("Zero Hour")

©2016 George R. R. Martin (P)2016 Random House Audio

Loved it! awesome thru and thru

Love this entire series. haven't been disappointed yet. I recommend this book and while series!

Excellent

The series is fun and different and this audiobook really starts pulling it together and building it up with great voice work.

best one since the first edition!

I enjoyed this one more than I have the others since the first one. I think Clancy Brown as puppet man was perfect so that's probably the best part but the action was great too. plus minimal fortunato and a lot more into Golden Boy which i have always found to be a sympathetic character so it was nice to see a minor redemption arc for him.

Terrible Narration.

I thought Book 3 was a chore, So was not ready for the awful of this one. It's the Narrators, why they made the choices they made for book 3 or this one and the others that follow, I'll never understand. Kathleen Turner as Peregrine? no, Just no. Look get Luke Daniels back and then these would be enjoyable to a point. The story isn't that great to begin with and the Narration made it worse.

Slow start

The first few chapters were hard to follow, felt like they were part of a completely different story. I’m still not sure what was happening there, but once it was over it became a familiar Wild Cards story, it took a few hours though. Brought together a lot of the players, which is why I’m glad I finished it but it was hard to get into because of the confusion of the first few chapters.

mostly great voice acting.

Great stories. interesting turn for the world of Wildcards. The voice acting was mostly good. i wish there was a way to make 1 voice per character.

too crowded, too many narrators.

There are too many Narrators and too many bad accents. If you are running through the book casually you could get lost if you are not 100% committed to immersion. The stories are okay, but it seems like sex scenes and grittiness is more shoehorned in rather than being and organic part of the story. I will take a good long break from Wildcards for a while.

A great start for the 2nd half of wildcard world!!

This great novel is a wonderful addition to the colorful world of the wild card series. Loved it.

awesome, as always

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, as I have enjoyed all the other wild card books. I especially enjoyed the message from George RR Martin at the end. I do have to say though, I really did not enjoy the bits about Mayan twins. I know that it will be important to the story later, but I just could not get hooked on that bit of the story either way, this book is just as much a worthwhile read as the rest of the stories before it

I little disappointed!

The first three maintained a high level of suspense and energy. Unfortunately the writers decided to go political in many of the stories and which makes for a few really bad ones. Some of the new narrators are also a big step down but the bar was set very high.