SFF Author: Melinda Snodgrass

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Wild Cards: Try this in audio format

Wild Cards edited by George R.R. Martin Sept 15, 1946: Wild Card Day. When aliens from the planet Takis wanted to test their newly developed virus on a species that is similar to them, naturally, they brought it to Earth. Though they were thwarted by one of their own princes, a foppish alien who has […]

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Aces High: There’s always something fresh and new in WILD CARDS

Aces High edited by George R.R. Martin Aces High is the second volume of George R.R. Martin’s long-running WILD CARDS anthology. In the first volume, Wild Cards, we learned how aliens from the planet Takis decided to test their new virus by using humans as their guinea pigs. In the 1960s, they let loose what has […]

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Down and Dirty: Lacks cohesion, but still entertaining

Down and Dirty edited by George R.R. Martin Jube: Hear who won the Miss Jokertown Beauty Pageant last week? Croyd: Who? Jube: Nobody. I continue to listen to the new audiobook version of the WILD CARDS books as they are released by Random House Audio. Down and Dirty, the fifth volume, was published a few […]

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Ace in the Hole: WILD CARDS gets back on track

Ace in the Hole edited by George R.R. Martin Ace in the Hole (1990), the sixth WILD CARDS mosaic novel, is a vast improvement over the last two novels (Aces Abroad and Down and Dirty). Down and Dirty, especially, lacked cohesion due to George R.R. Martin’s lack of editorial control over his authors, something he […]

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Inside Straight: A WILD CARDS reboot

Inside Straight edited by George R.R. Martin The year 2008 saw the (second?) rebirth of the WILD CARDS series edited and co-written by George R.R. Martin. These are ‘mosaic’ novels — stories written by several authors and set in a shared universe. The first book, Wild Cards, appeared in 1987. Inside Straight (2008) is book 18. […]

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Busted Flush: Not very satisfying

Busted Flush edited by George R.R. Martin Busted Flush is the nineteenth entry in the Wild Cards series of mosaic novels edited by George R.R. Martin. The previous book, Inside Straight is something of a new beginning for the series, a new trilogy with new characters and a couple of new writers. It’s a good point […]

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Suicide Kings: Surprising depth

Suicide Kings edited by George R.R. Martin Suicide Kings is the third part in the latest reincarnation of the long-running WILD CARDS series. Together with Inside Straight and Busted Flush it forms the Committee trilogy. I guess you could consider this trilogy WILD CARDS the next generation. These books are meant to be an entry […]

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Fort Freak: A WILD CARDS novel that can be read as a stand-alone

Fort Freak by George R.R. Martin Fort Freak is the twenty-first entry in the WILD CARDS universe, a long running series of mosaic novels edited by George R.R. Martin. It is not necessary to have read the previous twenty volumes to read this one; Fort Freak works fine as a standalone. There are numerous references […]

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Songs of Love and Death: Tales of star-crossed lovers

Songs of Love and Death edited by George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois Songs of Love and Death is the third anthology that George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois have edited together. Like Warriors and Songs of the Dying Earth, Songs of Love and Death brings together some of the biggest names that SFF has to offer and they set these authors to work on […]

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World Fantasy Convention 2011: Day Two

I’m reporting about Day 2 today. Read about Day One here. There were lots of interesting panels today, and it was frustrating to try to boil them down into the ones I wanted to see. My first choice was “Retelling Old Stories: The New Fairy Tales.” I’ve got all the modern fairy tale collections edited by Terri […]

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More speculative fiction by Melinda Snodgrass

Circuit — (1986-1988) Publisher: The setting is the moon, where newfound industrial strength gives the frontier communities a chance to show independence from the Earth nations that established them. A leading constitutionalist and friend of the U.S. president, Justice Cabot Huntington is sent in to regain control. The stiff-necked judge looks forward to writing precedents for […]

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