Wild Cards is a 43-book series with 43 primary works first released in 1986 with contributions by George R.R. Martin, Stephen Leigh, John J. Miller, Leanne C. Harper, Gail Gerstner-Miller, Walton Simons, Edward Bryant, Lewis Shiner, Victor Milán, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Michael Cassutt, John Jackson Miller, Carrie Vaughn, Daniel Abraham, Cherie Priest, Paul Cornell, Walter Jon Williams, David D. Levine, John Jos. Miller, Kevin Andrew Murphy, Saladin Ahmed, Marko Kloos, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Christopher Rowe, Ian Tregillis, Alan Brennert, and Emma Newman.