Melinda Snodgrass

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Melinda Snodgrass (2018)

Melinda Marilyn Snodgrass (born November 27, 1951 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American writer , screenwriter and producer in the fields of science fiction and fantasy . She also publishes under the pseudonym Phillipa Bornikova .

Life

Snodgrass was born in Los Angeles but grew up in Albuquerque , New Mexico , where her family moved when she was only five months old. She first learned ballet , singing and piano . For this she came to Austria for a while and studied at the Conservatory of the City of Vienna . After her return to America, however, the focus of her interests shifted and she now majored in history and music as a minor. Although she graduated with the grade Magna cum laude , due to poor career prospects, she began a second degree in law at the New Mexico School of Law . After graduation, she worked as a lawyer for three years .

Encouraged by Victor Milán , Snodgrass began writing science fiction stories in the 1980s. Her first work was the 1984 Star Trek novel The Tears of the Singers (German: The tears of the singers ). In the same year, she and George RR Martin developed the Wild Cards series, a series of short stories - anthologies and novels about an alternate world populated by superheroes . The first of so far 27 volumes (as of August 2019) was published in 1987. Between 1986 and 1988, Snodgrass also published the three-volume Curcuit series about a judge who travels through the solar system .

At Martin's insistence, Snodgrass began working as a screenwriter in 1988. She initially wrote a screenplay for the series Raumschiff Enterprise - The Next Century without commission , which convinced the production company Paramount and was finally filmed in the second season of the series under the title The Measure of a Man (German: Who owns data? ). As the only episode in the series, The Measure of a Man was nominated for a WGA Award by the Writers Guild of America . After this initial success, Snodgrass was involved in 15 other scripts in the series until 1990. Until 2002 she wrote for eleven other television series and films , including between 1998 and 1999 for the series Profiler , for which she also worked as a consulting producer.

In 2002, Snodgrass retired as a screenwriter and became a manager at a small natural gas company in New Mexico that her father ran until his death in 1977. In addition, she continues to work as a writer.

bibliography

Novels

  • Star Trek
    • The Tears of the Singers , 1984 (German: The Tears of the Singers , 1988)
  • Circuit range
    • Circuit , 1986
    • Circuit Breaker , 1987
    • Final Circuit , 1988
  • with Victor Milán: Runespear , 1987
  • Queen's Gambit Declined , 1989
  • Wild cards series
    • Double Solitaire , 1992
  • Richard Oort 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

Novels as Phillipa Bornikova

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

Short stories and mosaic novels

  • Wild cards series
    • Degradation Rites (German: Humiliation Rituals ) in: Wild Cards , 1987 (German: Wild Cards 1 - Vier Asse , 1996)
    • Relative Difficulties (German: Kinship Problems ) in: Aces High , 1987 (German: Wild Cards 4 - Schlechte Karten , 1996)
    • Roulette (German: Roulette ) in: Jokers Wild , 1987 (German: Wild Cards 5 - Wilde Joker , 1997)
    • Mirrors of The Soul (German: Spiegel der Seele ) in: Aces Abroad , 1988 (German: Wild Cards 6 - Asse im Einsatz , 1997)
    • Blood Ties (German: Blutsbande ) in: Down and Dirty , 1988 (German: Wild Cards 7 - Only dead people know Jokertown , Wild Cards 8 - Concert for Sirens and Serotonin , 1998)
    • Dr. Tachyon (German: Dr. Tachyon ) in: Ace in the Hole , 1990 (German: Wild Cards 9 - Terror and Dr. Tachyon , Wild Cards 10 - An ace in the back , 1999)
    • The Devil's Triangle in: One-Eyed Jacks , 1991
    • Lovers in: Jokertown Shuffle , 1991
    • The Crooked Man in: Card Sharks , 1993
    • A Dose of Reality in: Markes Cards , 1994
    • A Face for the Cutting Room Floor in: Deuces Town , 2002
    • Dark of the Moon (German: The dark side of the moon ) in: Inside Straight , 2008 (German: The game of games , 2014)
    • Star Power (German: Die Macht der Stars ) in: Inside Straight , 2008 (German: Das Spiel der Spiele , 2014)
    • Blood on the Sun (German: Spionage in Fernost ) in: Inside Straight , 2008 (German: Das Spiel der Spiele , 2014)
    • Double Helix (German: Double Helix ) in: Busted Flush , 2008 (German: Der Sieg der Losierer , 2015)
    • Noel "Double Helix" Matthews (German: Noel "Double Helix" Matthews ) in: Suicide Kings , 2009 (German: The highest commitment , 2016)
    • The Rook in: Fort Freak , 2011 (German: Wild Cards - Die Cops von Jokertown , 2018)
    • Galahad in Blue in: Lowball , 2014 (German: Wild Cards - Die Gladiatoren von Jokertown , 2019)
    • Francis Xavier "Franny" Black in: High Stakes , 2016 (German: Wild Cards - Die Hexe von Jokertown , 2019)
    • The Sister in the Streets in: Low Chicago , 2018
    • The Ceremony of Innocence in: Knaves over Queens , 2019
  • Richard Oort series
    • A Token of a Better Age , 2009
    • No Mystery, No Miracle , 2011
  • The Imperials Saga
    • A Gift Though Small , 2009
    • The Wayfarer's Advice , 2010
    • The Hands That Are Not There , 2013 (German: The hands that are not there , 2015)
  • Requiem , 1987
  • Futures Yet Unseen , 1988
  • Silent Voices of the Clay , 1990
  • Written in the Dust , 2013
  • When the Devil Drives , 2017

Filmography

As a screenwriter

As a producer

  • 1996: Star Command (TV movie)
  • 1998–1999: Profiler (TV series, 13 episodes)

Awards and nominations

Result category Award
1987 Nominated Best novel ( Circuit ) Prometheus Award
1988 Nominated Best Novel ( Circuit Breaker ) Prometheus Award
1989 Nominated Best novel ( Final Circuit ) Prometheus Award
1989 Nominated Episodic Drama ( Starship Enterprise - The Next Century , Who Owns Data? ) Writers Guild of America Award
1990 21st place Best Novel ( Queen's Gambit Declined ) Locus Award
2001 Nominated Starship Enterprise - The Next Century , Who Owns Data? Prometheus Hall of Fame Award

Web links

Commons : Melinda Snodgrass  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c melindasnodgrass.com: About
  2. ^ Spaceship Enterprise - The Next Century (1987-1998) - Awards , in: IMDb , accessed on February 3, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Snodgrass, Melinda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Snodgrass, Melinda Marilyn (full name); Snodgrass Melinda M .; Bornikova, Phillipa (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer, screenwriter, and producer
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles