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Author by: Nicholas A. RobinsLanguage: enPublisher by: Indiana University PressFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 69Total Download: 875File Size: 45,7 MbDescription: This book investigates three Indian revolts in the Americas: the 1680 uprising of the Pueblo Indians against the Spanish; the Great Rebellion in Bolivia, 1780-82; and the Caste War of Yucatan that began in 1849 and was not finally crushed until 1903.

Robins examines their causes, course, nature, leadership, and goals. He finds common features: they were revitalization movements that were both millenarian and exterminatory in their means and objectives; they sought to restore native rule and traditions to their societies; and they were movements born of despair and oppression that were sustained by the belief that they would witness the dawning of a new age. His work underscores the link that may be found, but is not inherent, between genocide, millennialism, and revitalization movements in Latin America during the colonial and early national periods.

Bloat, the boy governor of the Rox, had dreams as big as his monstrous body. He wanted to make Ellis Island a safe haven for his people, a Joker homeland. To survive Bloat needed the Jumpers, adolescent outcasts who could steal a man's body in the blink of an eye. He needed their money to feed the Rox. Even more, he needed their terrifying powers to stave off the vengeance Bloat, the boy governor of the Rox, had dreams as big as his monstrous body.

He wanted to make Ellis Island a safe haven for his people, a Joker homeland. To survive Bloat needed the Jumpers, adolescent outcasts who could steal a man's body in the blink of an eye. He needed their money to feed the Rox. Even more, he needed their terrifying powers to stave off the vengeance of a frightened world.But the Jumpers grew more vicious and uncontrollable every day, under the leadership of Dr. Tahcyon's psychopathic grandson.The greatest threat the Wild Cards have ever faced continued in this series. This is a tough one to rate and review. On the one hand, there were some pretty cool sections with Captain Trips coming back, and better yet the sections by Walter Jon Williams involving the Black Shadow, who has become one my favorite characters in this series.

Williams has the best mix of superhero with dark fantasy and film noir/detective styles, doing it far better than the other writers in this volume.On the other hand, Melinda Snodgrass's sections were borderline awful. This series has nev This is a tough one to rate and review.

On the one hand, there were some pretty cool sections with Captain Trips coming back, and better yet the sections by Walter Jon Williams involving the Black Shadow, who has become one my favorite characters in this series. Williams has the best mix of superhero with dark fantasy and film noir/detective styles, doing it far better than the other writers in this volume.On the other hand, Melinda Snodgrass's sections were borderline awful. This series has never shied away from extreme violence, and rape, but in this case it seems like she was reveling in her depictions of rape, and it wasn't just occasional, but pervasive.

I get that Blaise is an utter shit-stain of a character, and that he himself has been raped, but holy fucking shit 'Lovers' goes beyond all reasonable boundaries. And to top it off, he escapes with Tachyon's ship. According to the end notes, the next book is going to be a novel penned solely by Snodgrass, which doesn't leave me feeling very positive about reading it. But I've already committed myself to at least the volumes I borrowed from my friend, for better or worse. Martin has said that was a big jumping-off point for readers of the Wild Cards series. However, if I had to guess, I'd say this book was even moreso.

I'm pretty sure it was where I stopped reading, when I originally read these books in the '90s.The problems isn't even in the main plot. The jumpers are a fair enough plot, but the real heart of the story is the Rox, and that's quite intriguing. The creation of an illegal Joker state feels like a very natural evolution of George R.R. Martin has said that was a big jumping-off point for readers of the Wild Cards series. However, if I had to guess, I'd say this book was even moreso. I'm pretty sure it was where I stopped reading, when I originally read these books in the '90s.The problems isn't even in the main plot.

The jumpers are a fair enough plot, but the real heart of the story is the Rox, and that's quite intriguing. The creation of an illegal Joker state feels like a very natural evolution of the Wild Cards world, and one that's dealt with well here. Meanwhile, we get a a few old-favorite characters back, something that was missing in the previous volume.So what's the problem?

It's a single story that's so horrible that it can put you off reading Wild Cards at all. Just one story, you might say?? Yeah, it's that bad.The Temptation of Hieronymus Bloat (Leigh: Bloat). The first framing story is about Bloat, the governor of the Rox. If offers some nice surprises when we first visit Bloat's psyche, and learn that he's a fairly young and uncertain man. After that it does a nice job of framing some of the conflicts of the novel and also offering a few climatic assaults on the island. It runs a little long and takes up a little too much of this novel (with 11!

Parts), but it's still mostly enjoyable 7/10.Lovers (Snogiass: Tachyon). The other framing story is what caused me to stop reading Wild Cards the first time around.

It's pretty awful. Snodgrass basically uses the jumper power to weaponize rape, then uses it in the ickiest way possible. It's distasteful and disturbing. And it's greatly repetitive.

The first four parts of this story end with a rape, a rape, a promise of sexual slavery and future rape, and a rape. Yay?Yes, the Wild Cards books had always focused a bit on rape, and no I've never liked it. And yes, body horror was the at the heart of the jumper menace. Which made it unique, but which was also its greatest weakness. This was a step too far. This story appearing as Jokertown Shuffle's frame means that we have to wade through this muck for far, far too long. 0/10And Hope to Die (Miller: Yeoman).

It's great to see Brennan pulled back into the story after retiring (and escaping his plotlines) in a way that always seemed too easy. His return here is quite exciting.

With that said, I don't love the degeneration into a dream story, and if this is the finale for Kien (and it seems to be), it's very anticlimactic. A pity after the brilliant setup of the last book 5/10.Madman Across the Water (Milan: Captain Trips). Mark Meadows' story in the previous volume seemed a little off, because he was so far removed from the main narrative. That totally pays off in this volume, when we learn that his problems with the law have led him.

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Straight to the Rox. It's a great outsider's view of the growing Joker society and a very believable plunge into darkness (that's a much less abrupt heel turn than Blaise's in the last volume). But despite the focus on the Rox, this continues to be Mark's story, deeply entwined with his personal needs and goals. Overall, it's a strong and emotional story 7/10.When Nights Dark Agents To Their Prey Do Rouse (Williams: Black Shadow). Another interesting character from Williams: the Black Shadow, who is pretty much the Wild Cards' answer to Moon Knight. Part of what makes this character interesting is his history: he's been around a while and has ties to notable events. Part is how it explains what we've seen before, particularly the strange characters of Wall Walker and Mr.

Williams manages to juggle all these characters well. Meanwhile, he tells a good Jumper story, and how they're quickly taking control of the rich. And what Black Shadow can do about it.Then, the second half of the story ups the ante by taking us to the Rox. I love this part of the story a little less due to its ultimate pointlessness. But it's still exciting (and interesting to learn more about Chalktalk, though I could do without sexual abuse appearing everywhere in this series).

7/10.Riders (Shiner: Veronica). A lot of this story is the plodding tale of how Veronica got from 18 months ago to the present day. Which I suppose might be exciting if you like Veronica as a character.

(I don't.) Things finally tie back into the jumpers at the end, and when they do the story becomes much more enjoyable. I suppose, one can understand the storytelling technique here: Veronica was involved with the jumpers, and then 18 months later becomes involved with them again. But the story of the in-between isn't the most enthralling 6/10.Nobody Does It Alone (Simons: Mr. Essentially, the finale to the Veronica story, but also a conclusion to the whole Veronica/Nobody arc from these last two volumes.

Which is a bit of a relief, as too much of this volume has been setup and water-treading. Unlike the Yeoman finale which didn't work because of the large change in storytelling focus, this one keeps right on with the pseudo-espionage feel of the previous Nobody stories, and thus offers a compelling conclusion 7/10Overall, this ninth volume had a few good stories, but no greatness, and some of those good stories were troubled. But then you have 'Lovers'. Without 'Lovers', this was probably a 3-star book. With it: bleh.

This book has some of the best stories the Wild Cards series produced up to this point. Unfortunately, despite some very high highs (I hesitate to say highest, though sometimes they come close), this story also has the lowest lows so far.Let's begin with the overplots. There are two of them, 'The Temptation of Hieronymous Bloat', by Stephen Leigh, and 'Lovers', by Melinda Snodgrass.The Stephen Leigh overplot frustrates me. Bloat is a fascinating character. As a militant advocate for joker's righ This book has some of the best stories the Wild Cards series produced up to this point. Unfortunately, despite some very high highs (I hesitate to say highest, though sometimes they come close), this story also has the lowest lows so far.Let's begin with the overplots. There are two of them, 'The Temptation of Hieronymous Bloat', by Stephen Leigh, and 'Lovers', by Melinda Snodgrass.The Stephen Leigh overplot frustrates me.

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Bloat is a fascinating character. As a militant advocate for joker's rights, he is very much Gimli's successor. In his story, he emerges as the central anti-hero of this anthology, as he struggles to maintain his power over his newly created stronghold on Ellis Island. Unfortunately, this story is bogged down simply by association with the other overplot. Speaking of which.The Melinda Snodgrass overplot is a vile story.

I know that's a strong word, but believe me, it's appropriate. This is a vile, nasty story that should never have been written and which should never be read. This story is so vile that it knocked the entire book down two stars. Yes, that's right. Without this story, this book would have been a 4-star volume, and one of the best in the series thus far.

With this story, it's easily the worst. This story reads like bad fan fiction legitimized and allowed to run rampage. If this story had been written by a man, the Wild Cards series would be much more famous now, and NOT in a good way.

I honestly recommend that if you read this book, you skip this story. You'll get the gist of it through the references in the other story. If you do decide to read it, be aware that it contains virtually EVERY SINGLE TRIGGER WARNING that exists. Also, bring along some industrial-strength brain bleach, because after the sheer amounts of wrong you'll be exposed to here, you'll need it.Both these stories get better towards the end, and the conclusion of the volume is actually quite satisfying.Getting on to the main plots. Normally I'd say that 'less is more', but when your overplots include the steaming pile of brain shit that is 'Lovers', more full stories is definitely more.Our first full story is 'And Hope to Die', by John J.

This is one of the weakest in the volume, as Yeoman's feud with Brennan comes to a head in a contrived and unsatisfying manner. It's not bad - if you like Yeoman you'll like this story - but it's not exactly good either.Next up we've got 'Madman Across the Water', by Victor Milan, in which Captain Trips goes rogue. This one's awesome, and has a really cinematic feel. It made me feel like I was watching one of the new superhero movies of the last 10 years or so, except about Captain Trips. Now that Trips is on the wrong side of the law, we get to see the Turtle show up and play antagonist to him, which is great fun too.

Every book could use a little Turtle in it.The next story is 'While Night's Black Agents to Their Preys Do Rouse', an epic two-parter (continued at the end of the volume) by Walter Jon Williams. This one is the highlight of the whole volume, and one of the best Wild Cards stories ever. There's little doubt in my mind by now that Williams is the best Wild Cards author, better even than George RR Martin himself. He gives us a new PoV character in this one, the Black Shadow, a Batman-like vigilante with an identity crisis. If you loved his previous characters, Golden Boy and Modular Man (and really, who didn't), you'll love 'Shad', too.Lewis Shiner's Veronica stars in 'Riders', which is a really boring and unsatisfying follow-up to her story in the previous volume. Aside from the horror that is 'Lovers', this is the volume's weakest story.Then we get my new favorite, Mr.

Nobody, in 'Nobody Does it Alone', by Walton Simons. Nobody goes from deuce to full-on action hero in this one, using a combination of creative use of his relatively weak power and all the shiny toys that wealth can buy (think Batman or the Green Arrow) to settle his score with Latham.So yeah, go ahead and get this book. Get it for the Captain Trips and the Black Shadow and Mr. Get it for Yeoman if you like his stories.

Maybe you can even read the Bloat story and the Veronica story.But for the love of all that is holy, don't read the horrendous, steaming pile of dog doo doo that is 'Lovers'. I'd recommend skipping the entire thing until after the second part of the Black Shadow story. That's the point where things stop being horrible and start being kind of interesting. WTF happened to this series? It's like the authors all got together and decided to ignore all my favorite characters (the ones that are still alive, anyway) and come up with ridiculous plots that aren't hardly believable, even in the Wild Cards world of the late 80's.The 'jumpers' are so contrived and unbelievable it's painful to read about them.

The conspiracy around them and the Shadow Fists finally has a chance to finally die; I hope since they killed off major players in that plotline we ca WTF happened to this series? It's like the authors all got together and decided to ignore all my favorite characters (the ones that are still alive, anyway) and come up with ridiculous plots that aren't hardly believable, even in the Wild Cards world of the late 80's.The 'jumpers' are so contrived and unbelievable it's painful to read about them. The conspiracy around them and the Shadow Fists finally has a chance to finally die; I hope since they killed off major players in that plotline we can finally move on to something new. These last two books really miss the point of alternate history, IMHO, by focusing too much on wild card characters and not taking the characters and the storylines into the broader world around them.Part of the book falls into torture porn, another part dips dangerously close to self-serving navel gazing, and the whole book is dreary and unsurprising. Maybe that was the tone of the time it was written; I was too self-absorbed to notice what the rest of the world felt like. They did introduce a new joker who promises to be interesting if only because he's the only new multifaceted character in the last few hundred pages, but again the amount of disbelief they're asking me to suspend makes me feel this series is tipping towards fantasy and away from scifi. I'm reading the series in order, I haven't commented on any of them yet What I can say is that Wild Cards books are full of fantastic ideas; which sometimes translate to very enjoyable books.

Other times they seem just middle of road hum drum superhero fiction. I'm starting to get slightly annoyed at the number of aces and jokers who for some reason or another are multiple people. In the beginning when it was just Croyd, 'The Sleeper' - it was cool and seemed novel. Even bringing in Captain Tri I'm reading the series in order, I haven't commented on any of them yet What I can say is that Wild Cards books are full of fantastic ideas; which sometimes translate to very enjoyable books. Other times they seem just middle of road hum drum superhero fiction. I'm starting to get slightly annoyed at the number of aces and jokers who for some reason or another are multiple people.

In the beginning when it was just Croyd, 'The Sleeper' - it was cool and seemed novel. Even bringing in Captain Trips was okay to a point. But now honestly between Jumpers, and Shad/Gravemold/Black Shadow/Neil, it's starting to wear thin. I still love the concept of a superhero themed shared universe series but I don't know, maybe it will get better once the new cycle begins. Because right now the books are losing steam for me.

Jokertown Shuffle was one of the low points thus far. I know that book 10 is Tachyon centric and I'm not his biggest fan really.

I'm just hoping that something big happens in this next volume because i really really wanted to love this series because I think it has such potential to be great. Jokertown Shuffle (Wild Cards, #9)by George R.R. The power of romance!!! This was a very dark and sad story for the series. Very, very violent, probably the one they would make the movie out of. Jokertown shuffle is the struggle of the Jokers left out of the prestige and glory of the Aces.

They feel abandoned and ridiculed and treated as sub human. Bloat is a joker the leader of the Jokers who take over Ellis Island. They hope to make their own colony; somewhere they can survive witho Jokertown Shuffle (Wild Cards, #9)by George R.R. The power of romance!!!

This was a very dark and sad story for the series. Very, very violent, probably the one they would make the movie out of.

Jokertown shuffle is the struggle of the Jokers left out of the prestige and glory of the Aces. They feel abandoned and ridiculed and treated as sub human.

Bloat is a joker the leader of the Jokers who take over Ellis Island. They hope to make their own colony; somewhere they can survive without the horror of others rejection of them. Bloat finds love and sacrifices all he has for it. Only to lose all that he dreams, all that any one of them dreams. This is the 9th installment of the alternate universe series, 'Wild Card'. Edited by George R.R.

Martin and written by numerous authors, each book contains stories that carry a common thread and common characters. One would think that because of the disparity between the writers, coherency would be a problem. But Martin does a wonderful job of keeping the storyline and the plot moving along through an alternate American time line. Interjected into the story are real life people and events, such This is the 9th installment of the alternate universe series, 'Wild Card'. Edited by George R.R.

Martin and written by numerous authors, each book contains stories that carry a common thread and common characters. One would think that because of the disparity between the writers, coherency would be a problem. But Martin does a wonderful job of keeping the storyline and the plot moving along through an alternate American time line. Interjected into the story are real life people and events, such as George Bush and the Desert Storm wars. Science fiction with a taste of history, but definitely an above average read.

I will continue to be a fan of the 'Wild Card' series. It seems the authors I like did not contribute to this book. The Jumper plot is not very entertaining, thanks for nothing Chris Claremont. They could only make it worse by adding time travel. I can do without anything written by Lewis Shiner.Walter Jon Williams again writes the best story in the book and profiles Black Shadow. Sure Black Shadow is the traditional misunderstood hero on the wrong side of the law but it beats the rest of the stories.This has been the least favorite of the series fo It seems the authors I like did not contribute to this book. The Jumper plot is not very entertaining, thanks for nothing Chris Claremont.

They could only make it worse by adding time travel. I can do without anything written by Lewis Shiner.Walter Jon Williams again writes the best story in the book and profiles Black Shadow. Sure Black Shadow is the traditional misunderstood hero on the wrong side of the law but it beats the rest of the stories.This has been the least favorite of the series for me so far. Martin was born September 20, 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey. His father was Raymond Collins Martin, a longshoreman, and his mother was Margaret Brady Martin. He has two sisters, Darleen Martin Lapinski and Janet Martin Patten.Martin attended Mary Jane Donohoe School and Marist High School.

He began writing very young, selling monster stories to other neighborhood children for pennies, George R.R. Martin was born September 20, 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey. His father was Raymond Collins Martin, a longshoreman, and his mother was Margaret Brady Martin. He has two sisters, Darleen Martin Lapinski and Janet Martin Patten.Martin attended Mary Jane Donohoe School and Marist High School. He began writing very young, selling monster stories to other neighborhood children for pennies, dramatic readings included.

Later he became a comic book fan and collector in high school, and began to write fiction for comic fanzines (amateur fan magazines). Martin's first professional sale was made in 1970 at age 21: 'The Hero,' sold to Galaxy, published in February, 1971 issue. Other sales followed.In 1970 Martin received a B.S. In Journalism from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, graduating summa cum laude.

He went on to complete a M.S. In Journalism in 1971, also from Northwestern.As a conscientious objector, Martin did alternative service 1972-1974 with VISTA, attached to Cook County Legal Assistance Foundation. He also directed chess tournaments for the Continental Chess Association from 1973-1976, and was a Journalism instructor at Clarke College, Dubuque, Iowa, from 1976-1978. He wrote part-time throughout the 1970s while working as a VISTA Volunteer, chess director, and teacher.In 1975 he married Gale Burnick.

They divorced in 1979, with no children. Martin became a full-time writer in 1979. He was writer-in-residence at Clarke College from 1978-79.Moving on to Hollywood, Martin signed on as a story editor for Twilight Zone at CBS Television in 1986. In 1987 Martin became an Executive Story Consultant for Beauty and the Beast at CBS. In 1988 he became a Producer for Beauty and the Beast, then in 1989 moved up to Co-Supervising Producer. He was Executive Producer for Doorways, a pilot which he wrote for Columbia Pictures Television, which was filmed during 1992-93.Martin's present home is Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is a member of Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (he was South-Central Regional Director 1977-1979, and Vice President 1996-1998), and of Writers' Guild of America, West.