Wildcard

by Kelly Mitchel

100,000 years alone with Wildcard, master stylist and best-selling rowdy bard Kelly Mitchell (shortlisted for the prestigious Faulkner Wisdom prize) codes out a complex masterpiece in the vein of Neal Stephenson’s Baroque cycle with channels of Zelazny’s Amber series and brush strokes of Neuromancer. When young Karl and his mother Martha are torn apart by hidden forces, they find themselves pawns in the larger game played out by three manufactured entities - Juniper, who studies power...