George R.R. Martin Has a Second Planned Series

George R.R. Martin, writer of the Game of Thrones series, has more stories that will soon come to television.  His Wild Cards anthology, a 22 volume series of books started in 1986 and involving more than 30 authors, will be developed for television by Universal Cable Productions (who also handled Mr. Robot).  

Mr. Martin announced the television series on his website and also provided this description of the world he created in Wild Cards:

The shared world of the Wild Cards diverged from our own on September 15, 1946 when an alien virus was released in the skies over Manhattan, and spread across an unsuspecting Earth. Of those infected, 90% died horribly, drawing the black queen, 9% were twisted and deformed into jokers, while a lucky 1% became blessed with extraordinary and unpredictable powers and became aces. The world was never the same...Wild Cards is a series of books, graphic novels, games... but most of all it is a universe, as large and diverse and exciting as the comic book universes of Marvel and DC (though somewhat grittier, and considerably more realistic and more consistent), with an enormous cast of characters both major and minor. There are thousands of stories to be told in the world of the Wild Cards...

Mr. Martin said he is too busy with Game of Thrones to oversee the new series himself (as well as contractually bound to HBO).  He has already had an amazing run with his current series, as well as an amazing amount of work staying current with his writing, so for his sake I am glad he is handing off this project to someone else.