Double Solitaire the tenth entry and the first full novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

 in the Wild Cards

Wild Cards

Wild Cards is a science fiction and superhero anthology series set in a shared universe. The series was created by a group of New Mexico science fiction authors, but it is mostly pulled together and edited by best-selling author George R. R. Martin with assistance by Melinda Snodgrass, also a...

shared universe

Shared universe

A shared universe is a fictional universe to which more than one writer contributes. Work set in a shared universe share characters and other elements with varying degrees of consistency. Shared universes are contrasted with collaborative writing, in which multiple authors work on a single story....

 fiction series edited by George R. R. Martin

George R. R. Martin

George Raymond Richard Martin , sometimes referred to as GRRM, is an American author and screenwriter of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He is best known for A Song of Ice and Fire, his bestselling series of epic fantasy novels that HBO adapted for their dramatic pay-cable series Game of...

. It was authored by Melinda Snodgrass and first published in paperback in the USA.

Plot introduction

In a previous volume Dr Tachyon had found his personality placed in the body of a pregnant teenage girl by his evil grandson Blaise. Blaise flees with Tachyon's body to Tachyon's home planet Takis. Determined to recover his body Tachyon and his friends Popinjay and Cap'n Tripps purchase travel on an alien spaceship and head to Takis. While there they have to fend off an attack by an alien race, in the course of which one of Cap'n Tripps' personas is killed.