By William F. Wu When George first invited me to join Wild Cards so many years ago, I was especially excited by the idea because I had spent so many years reading comics. I had also studied a class on comics in graduate school and participated some in comics fandom. Anthologies and braided novels telling …
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by David D. Levine This doesn’t come up often, but my college degree is in architecture. I’ve never used it professionally (I graduated in the middle of a recession, couldn’t find work as an architect, and stumbled into high tech, where the money was so good I never looked back) but architecture remains a life-long …
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(Or How I Learned to Embrace the Dark Side) by Melinda M. Snodgrass Confession time — I play games. In particular role playing games — and now that my RPG days seem to be sadly behind me (sniff) I have segued into playing video games. I love to play video games. For those of you who …
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by David Anthony Durham One of the many challenges about writing for Wild Cards is that you’re not only required to create and write about your own original characters, you’ve got to include other people’s characters in your stories as well. Much of the energy of the series comes from the crossing of story lines, …
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