Melinda M. Snodgrass Explained

Melinda M. Snodgrass
Birth Date:	27 November 1951
Birth Place:	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation:	Writer
Genre:	Science fiction, television
Notable Works:	Wildcards anthology series

Melinda M. Snodgrass (born November 27, 1951) is an American science fiction writer for print and television.^[1] In February 2021 Melinda was the Screenwriting Guest of Honor and Keynote Speaker at the 39th annual Life, the Universe, & Everything professional science fiction and fantasy arts symposium.^[2]

Life

Snodgrass lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In her spare time she is an equestrian who competes in dressage competition.^[3]

Snodgrass holds a degree in history from the University of New Mexico, as well as a law degree from the University of New Mexico School of Law. Her experience as a lawyer informed the Linnet Ellery series she published under the pen name Phillipa Bornikova (This Case Is Gonna Kill Me, 2012; Box Office Poison, 2013; Publish and Perish, 2018, all by Tor Books).

Career

Snodgrass wrote several episodes of ^[4] while serving as the series' story editor during its second and third seasons. She has also contributed produced scripts for the series Odyssey 5, The Outer Limits, SeaQuest DSV, and Reasonable Doubts; she was also a consulting producer on The Profiler.

She has also written science fiction novels and short stories, notably the Circuit trilogy and is the co-editor and a frequent story contributor to George R. R. Martin's long-running Wild Cards shared world series.^[5]

Snodgrass helped recover a version of the award-winning episode "The Measure of a Man" by saving an old VHS cassette.^[6] This allowed a new version to be reconstructed from existing film shots, and an extended cut with 13 minutes of additional footage was released in HD in 2012.^[6]

Works

Television

• "The Measure of a Man" (1989)
• "Pen Pals" (1989)
• "Up the Long Ladder" (1989)
• "The Ensigns of Command" (1989)
• "The High Ground" (1990)

L.A. Law

• "Dances with Sharks" (1991)

Beyond Reality

• "Enemy in Our Midst" (1991)

Reasonable Doubts

• "FAP" (1992)
• "Silence" (1992)
• "Legacy" (1993)
• "The Ties That Bind" (1993)

The Outer Limits

• "The Sandkings" (1995) (from a story by George R. R. Martin)
• "Living Hell" (1995)

Short stories

• Wild Cards series
  • "Degradation Rites" (1987) in Wild Cards^[7]
  • “Relative Difficulties” (1987) in Aces High^[8]
  • “Mirrors of the Soul” (1988) in Aces Abroad^[9]
  • “Blood Ties” (1988) in Down and Dirty^[10]
  • “The Devil's Triangle” in One-Eyed Jacks ^[11]
  • “Lovers Parts I-VI” (19) in Jokertown Shuffle ^[12]
  • "Galahad in Blue" (2014) in Lowball ^[13]
• “The Wayfarer’s Advice” (2010) in Songs of Love and Death, anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois^{[14] [15]}
• "No Mystery, No Miracle" (2011) in Down These Strange Streets, anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois^[16]
• "Written in Dust" (2013) in Old Mars, anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois^{[17] [18]}
• "The Hands That Are Not There" (2013) in Dangerous Women, anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois^[19]

Novels

• Star Trek
  • The Tears of the Singers (1984)
• Circuit series
  • Circuit (1986)
  • Circuit Breaker (1987)
  • Final Circuit (1988)
• Queen's Gambit Declined (1989)
• Wild Cards
  • Double Solitaire (1992)
• The Edge series
  • The Edge of Reason (2008)
  • The Edge of Ruin (2010)
  • The Edge of Dawn (2015)
• The Imperials Saga
  • The High Ground (2016)
  • In Evil Times (2017)
  • The Hidden World (2018)
  • Currency of War (2019)^[20]
  • The Thucydides Trap (2023)^[21]

Writing as Phillipa Bornikova

• Linnet Ellery series
  • This Case Is Gonna Kill Me (2012)
  • Box Office Poison (2013)
  • Publish and Perish (2018)

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Edge of Reason - Melinda Snodgrass - Macmillan. Macmillan. April 18, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140419044852/http://us.macmillan.com/theedgeofreason/MelindaSnodgrass. April 19, 2014. dead.
2. Web site: Life, the Universe, & Everything 39: The Marion K. "Doc" Smith Symposium on Science Fiction and Fantasy . LTUE Press. February 13, 2020.
3. Web site: The Albuquerque Journal. New Frontier. November 4, 2012. Rick Nathanson.
4. Web site: Yahoo. dead. https://archive.today/20140419145605/http://voices.yahoo.com/an-exclusive-interview-science-fiction-writer-4101967.html. April 19, 2014. mdy-all.
5. Web site: The Hollywood Reporter. 'Game of Thrones' Author's Superhero Anthology 'Wild Cards' Headed to Big Screen (Exclusive). October 28, 2011. Kit, Borys.
6. Web site: The Extended Version Of Star Trek TNG 'The Measure Of A Man' . Holodeck3 . 26 August 2020 . en . 11 June 2013.
7. Web site: Wild Cards Books 1. August 10, 2016. August 12, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160812204825/http://www.wildcardsonline.com/books1.html. dead.
8. Web site: Wild Cards Books 2. August 10, 2016. August 13, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160813124540/http://www.wildcardsonline.com/books2.html. dead.
9. Web site: Wild Cards Books 4. August 10, 2016. August 25, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160825034008/http://www.wildcardsonline.com/books4.html. dead.
10. Web site: Wild Cards Books 5. August 10, 2016. September 15, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160915050103/http://www.wildcardsonline.com/books5.html. dead.
11. Web site: Wild Cards Books 8. August 10, 2016. August 16, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160816182450/http://www.wildcardsonline.com/books8.html. dead.
12. Web site: Wild Cards Books 9. August 10, 2016. September 15, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160915014024/http://www.wildcardsonline.com/books9.html. dead.
13. Web site: LOWBALL Delivered to Tor Books - George R.R. Martin. August 10, 2016.
14. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20120208165054/http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2010/01/toc_songs_of_love_and_death_edited_by_george_rr_martin_and_gardner_dozois/ . Songs of Love and Death edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois . SF Signal. John . DeNardo . January 14, 2010 . February 8, 2012 . September 18, 2014.
15. Web site: Pocket Releases Songs of Love and Death . GeorgeRRMartin.com . November 24, 2010 . September 18, 2014.
16. Web site: TOC: Down These Strange Streets Edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois . John . DeNardo . . October 1, 2010 . September 26, 2014.
17. Web site: TOC: Old Mars Edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois . John . DeNardo . . February 14, 2013 . September 26, 2014 . December 24, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141224133311/http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2013/02/toc-old-mars-edited-by-george-r-r-martin-and-gardner-dozois-2/ . dead .
18. Web site: Mars as We Thought it Could Be: Old Mars, edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois . Robert H. . Bedford . Tor.com . October 8, 2013 . September 26, 2014.
19. Web site: Dangerous Women Arrives on Tor.com . July 24, 2013 . November 19, 2013 . Tor.com.
20. Web site: FictionDB: Book Lists - Melinda Snodgrass - The Currency of War. February 18, 2019. Scheduled to be released July 2019.
21. Web site: Writing . Melinda Snodgras . 20 March 2023 . November 29, 2012 .