Melinda M. Snodgrass

Melinda M. Snodgrass is a science fiction writer for print and television.[1]

Melinda M. Snodgrass
Snodgrass at the 2018 Phoenix Comic Fest
BornLos Angeles, California, United States
OccupationWriter
GenreScience fiction, television

She wrote several episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation[2] 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 (since 1987) Wild Cards shared world series.[3]

Snodgrass lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In her spare time she is an equestrian who competes in dressage competition.[4]

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, Tor Books, 2012; Box Office Poison, Tor Books, 2013; Publish And Perish, Tor Books 2018).[4]

Snodgrass helped recover a version of the award-winning Star Trek: The Next Generation episode The Measure of a Man by saving an old VHS cassette.[5] This allowed a new version to be re-constructed from existing film shots, and an extended cut with 13 minutes of additional footage was released in HD in 2012.[5]

Works

Star Trek: The Next Generation

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

Short stories
  • Wild Cards series
    • "Degradation Rites" (1987) in Wild Cards[6]
    • “Relative Difficulties” (1987) in Aces High[7]
    • “Mirrors of the Soul” (1988) in Aces Abroad[8]
    • “Blood Ties” (1988) in Down and Dirty[9]
    • “The Devil's Triangle” in One-Eyed Jacks [10]
    • “Lovers Parts I-VI” (19) in Jokertown Shuffle [11]
    • “Lowball: A Wild Cards Mosaic Novel” (2014) [12]
  • “The Wayfarer’s Advice” (2010) in Songs of Love and Death, anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois[13][14]
  • "No Mystery, No Miracle" (2011) in Down These Strange Streets, anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois[15]
  • "Written in Dust" (2013) in Old Mars, anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois[16][17]
  • "The Hands That Are Not There" (2013) in Dangerous Women, anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois[18]

Novels
  • Star Trek
    • Tears of the Singers (1984)
  • Circuit series
    • Circuit (1986)
    • Circuit Breaker (1987)
    • Final Circuit (1988)
  • Queen's Gambit Declined (1989)
  • 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)
    • The Currency of War (2019)[19]

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

References
  1. Macmillan. "The Edge of Reason - Melinda Snodgrass - Macmillan". Archived from the original on April 19, 2014. Retrieved April 18, 2014.
  2. "Yahoo". Archived from the original on April 19, 2014.
  3. Kit, Borys (October 28, 2011). "'Game of Thrones' Author's Superhero Anthology 'Wild Cards' Headed to Big Screen (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter.
  4. Rick Nathanson (November 4, 2012). "New Frontier". The Albuquerque Journal.
  5. "The Extended Version Of Star Trek TNG 'The Measure Of A Man'". Holodeck3. June 11, 2013. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
  6. "Wild Cards Books 1". Retrieved August 10, 2016.
  7. "Wild Cards Books 2". Retrieved August 10, 2016.
  8. "Wild Cards Books 4". Retrieved August 10, 2016.
  9. "Wild Cards Books 5". Retrieved August 10, 2016.
  10. "Wild Cards Books 8". Retrieved August 10, 2016.
  11. "Wild Cards Books 9". Retrieved August 10, 2016.
  12. "LOWBALL Delivered to Tor Books - George R.R. Martin". Retrieved August 10, 2016.
  13. DeNardo, John (January 14, 2010). "Songs of Love and Death edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois". SF Signal. Archived from the original on February 8, 2012. Retrieved September 18, 2014.
  14. "Pocket Releases Songs of Love and Death". GeorgeRRMartin.com. November 24, 2010. Retrieved September 18, 2014.
  15. DeNardo, John (October 1, 2010). "TOC: Down These Strange Streets Edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois". SF Signal. Retrieved September 26, 2014.
  16. DeNardo, John (February 14, 2013). "TOC: Old Mars Edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois". SF Signal. Retrieved September 26, 2014.
  17. Bedford, Robert H. (October 8, 2013). "Mars as We Thought it Could Be: Old Mars, edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois". Tor.com. Retrieved September 26, 2014.
  18. "Dangerous Women Arrives on Tor.com". Tor.com. July 24, 2013. Retrieved November 19, 2013.
  19. "FictionDB: Book Lists - Melinda Snodgrass - The Currency of War". Retrieved February 18, 2019. Scheduled to be released July 2019.


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