Melinda Snodgrass
Autor/a de The Tears of the Singers
Sobre l'autor
Nota de desambiguació:
(eng) Melinda Snodgrass authors the Linnet Ellery series under the pseudonym Phillipa Bornikova.
Sèrie
Obres de Melinda Snodgrass
A Very Large Array: New Mexico Science Fiction and Fantasy (1987) — Editor; Col·laborador — 31 exemplars
George R. R. Martin Presents Wild Cards: Pairing up: tales of love & lust from the world of the Wild Cards (2023) — Editor — 18 exemplars
George R. R. Martin Presents Wild Cards: Sins of the Father: A Graphic Novel (2023) — Autor — 6 exemplars
The Hands that are not There 3 exemplars
The Wayfarer's Advice 2 exemplars
Degradation Rites 2 exemplars
A Token Of A Better Age 2 exemplars
Until Daybreak And The Shadows Flee Away 1 exemplars
Go Up Into Gilead And Take Balm 1 exemplars
I Will Redeem Them From Death 1 exemplars
My Heart Waketh 1 exemplars
The Rook 1 exemplars
Make No Treaty With Them And Show Them No Mercy 1 exemplars
No Mystery, No Miracle 1 exemplars
Ye Brutish Among The People When Will Ye Be Wise 1 exemplars
Mirror of the Soul 1 exemplars
The Devil's Triangle 1 exemplars
Lovers 3 1 exemplars
The Crooked Man 1 exemplars
A Face for the Cutting Room Floor 1 exemplars
Requiem 1 exemplars
Blood Ties 1 1 exemplars
Blood Ties 2 1 exemplars
Blood Ties 3 1 exemplars
Blood Ties 4 1 exemplars
Blood Ties 5 1 exemplars
Blood Ties 6 1 exemplars
Lovers 1 1 exemplars
Lovers 2 1 exemplars
Lovers 4 1 exemplars
For Nation Shall Rise Against Nation 1 exemplars
Lovers 5 1 exemplars
Lovers 6 1 exemplars
Relative Difficulties 1 exemplars
Dark Of The Moon 1 exemplars
Star Power 1 exemplars
Blood On The Sun 1 exemplars
To The Hungry Soul Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet 1 exemplars
The Sword Shall Never Depart From Thy House 1 exemplars
An Abomination Of Desolation 1 exemplars
His Enemies Shall Lick The Dust 1 exemplars
The Words Of A Talebearer Are As Wounds 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Songs of Love and Death: All Original Tales of Star Crossed Love (2010) — Col·laborador — 727 exemplars
The City on the Edge of Forever: The Original Teleplay that Became the Classic Star Trek Episode (1977) — Epíleg, algunes edicions — 527 exemplars
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August/September 2009, Vol. 117, Nos. 1 & 2 (2009) — Col·laborador — 19 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Altres noms
- Bornikova, Phillipa
- Data de naixement
- 1951
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Llocs de residència
- Los Angeles, California, USA
New Mexico, USA - Educació
- New Mexico School of Law
- Agent
- Kay McCauley
- Nota de desambiguació
- Melinda Snodgrass authors the Linnet Ellery series under the pseudonym Phillipa Bornikova.
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 75
- També de
- 31
- Membres
- 3,008
- Popularitat
- #8,480
- Valoració
- 3.6
- Ressenyes
- 74
- ISBN
- 137
- Llengües
- 6
Wild Cards is set in a world shaped by a cataclysmic event in the 1940s that released a virus over New York City that gruesomely kills most of the people it infects, but leaves a small number with body-deforming mutations, gives a smaller number powers that amount to useless parlor tricks, and grants the smallest number full-blown super powers. Those with the worse luck live in a slum neighborhood of New York City called Jokertown.
The lead character is Francis "Frank" Black, a legacy police detective with daddy issues who was never infected by the virus. Assigned to Jokertown, he wants to find who removed the skeleton from the pile of skin and muscle that's been found in an alley. But when that case starts to reveal secrets the powers that be would prefer uncovered, he finds himself offered with a distracting high profile operation against Russian mobsters. The various plots get all muddled and I lost interest long before a cheesy showdown tried to tie it all together.
The story is narrated by a character whose identity is not immediately revealed, though it is pretty easy to guess very early on. But the story makes no attempt to justify why or how this character could be the narrator, so the identity reveal feels like only half of a payoff, with a second shoe left undropped.
The other side characters are barely introduced, lowering the stakes considerably when bad things happen to some of them. One character has a ridiculous Barbie doll figure that is unexplained in the book, but some research revealed she is a Joker whose body has the characteristics of a greyhound dog. The artists failed to show the exaggerated canine teeth her prose appearances describe.
The art, by the way, is going for an Alex Ross painted realism that does look pretty good most of the time, but it has a stiffness that fails to convey action sequences well.… (més)