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First published 1990
Series Wild Cards UniverseWild Cards #6
Publisher Bantam Spectra
Format Paperback
Type Novel
Cover art Timothy Truman
Pages 385
Price $4.50
ISBN 0553282530

  • A Bantam Spectra Book / February 1990
  • First printing by number line
  • Titled Wild Cards, Volume VI: Ace in the Hole on the cover and spine, but simply Ace in the Hole on the title page and the running header throughout the book.
  • Cover art copyright © 1990 by Timothy Truman on copyright page, the artwork is also signed
  • The first book in the series to be copyrighted by "George R. R. Martin and the Wild Card Trust." Previous volumes were copyrighted by Martin or his corporation , The Fevre River Packet Company.
  • The second book in the series that bears a closer resemblance to novel than anthology. The chapters are numbered and there is no individual credits, except for a "Closing Credits" (page 385) which shows who created each of the novel's characters.
  • After the last numbered page, there is a 16-page section (unpaginated) entitled "The Strange History of the Wild Cards," which contains summaries of the five previous volumes of the series.
  • $5.50 in Canada

Year Reviewer Publication
1989 Tom Whitmore Locus, #347 December 1989

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