Wild Cards edited by George RR Martin
 

I picked this book up soley because his name was on the cover. It is really kind of interesting, it is a book written by various Sci-Fi and Fantasy writers as well as the man himself. It has the feeling of one of his books, but it is set in the future where certian people have "powers" I am only about 100 pages into it but while we are waiting for the next installment you might want to try it out

As far as I know there is a long series of these works. (Yup, just found a link <A HREF="http://www.mixmaster.org/wildcards/" target="_blank">here</a> from which you can find a ton of info!)

Martin gave a talk at a convention I attended years ago explaining how, after some time, the series more or less collapsed under the weight of its back history. It <i>was</i> popular, though.

Some British authors tried something similar but, unfortunately, I forget what they called <i>their</i> superheroes....

Actually it wasn't set in the future, it was set during the '80's/90's. I read the first 9-10 books and they were very good. I now intedn the to read the other 5 books, plus the 2 new ones that are coming. I really liked them, if you couldn't tell. I-books is now doing special editions in trade paper back format(wish they were hard back) and are going to publish two new ones.