ACES HIGH (Wild Cards, No 2)

Nine science fiction writers--including Roger Zelazny, Victor Milan, and George R.R. Martin--continue the story of an alternate Earth, devastated by a plague, as the Aces and Jokers join forces to battle a new enemy, the abominable, deadly Swarm "After the alien virus struck humanity in the wake of World War II, a handful of the survivors found they possessed superhuman powers. The Wild Cards shared-world volumes tell their story. Here in book two, we trace these heroes and villains through the tumultuous 1980s, in stories from SF and fantasy giants such as George R. R. Martin, Roger Zelazny, Pat Cadigan, Lewis Shiner, Walter Jon Williams, and others"-- There were maybe a dozen of them.