Melinda Snodgrass
Auteur de The Tears of the Singers
A propos de l'auteur
Notice de désambiguation :
(eng) Melinda Snodgrass authors the Linnet Ellery series under the pseudonym Phillipa Bornikova.
Séries
Œuvres de Melinda Snodgrass
A Very Large Array: New Mexico Science Fiction and Fantasy (1987) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur — 30 exemplaires
George R. R. Martin Presents Wild Cards: Pairing up: tales of love & lust from the world of the Wild Cards (2023) — Directeur de publication — 18 exemplaires
George R. R. Martin Presents Wild Cards: Sins of the Father: A Graphic Novel (2023) — Auteur — 6 exemplaires
The Hands that are not There 3 exemplaires
The Wayfarer's Advice 2 exemplaires
Degradation Rites 2 exemplaires
A Token Of A Better Age 2 exemplaires
Until Daybreak And The Shadows Flee Away 1 exemplaire
Go Up Into Gilead And Take Balm 1 exemplaire
I Will Redeem Them From Death 1 exemplaire
My Heart Waketh 1 exemplaire
The Rook 1 exemplaire
Make No Treaty With Them And Show Them No Mercy 1 exemplaire
No Mystery, No Miracle 1 exemplaire
Ye Brutish Among The People When Will Ye Be Wise 1 exemplaire
Mirror of the Soul 1 exemplaire
The Devil's Triangle 1 exemplaire
Lovers 3 1 exemplaire
The Crooked Man 1 exemplaire
A Face for the Cutting Room Floor 1 exemplaire
Requiem 1 exemplaire
Blood Ties 1 1 exemplaire
Blood Ties 2 1 exemplaire
Blood Ties 3 1 exemplaire
Blood Ties 4 1 exemplaire
Blood Ties 5 1 exemplaire
Blood Ties 6 1 exemplaire
Lovers 1 1 exemplaire
Lovers 2 1 exemplaire
Lovers 4 1 exemplaire
For Nation Shall Rise Against Nation 1 exemplaire
Lovers 5 1 exemplaire
Lovers 6 1 exemplaire
Relative Difficulties 1 exemplaire
Dark Of The Moon 1 exemplaire
Star Power 1 exemplaire
Blood On The Sun 1 exemplaire
To The Hungry Soul Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet 1 exemplaire
The Sword Shall Never Depart From Thy House 1 exemplaire
An Abomination Of Desolation 1 exemplaire
His Enemies Shall Lick The Dust 1 exemplaire
The Words Of A Talebearer Are As Wounds 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Songs of Love and Death: All Original Tales of Star Crossed Love (2010) — Contributeur — 726 exemplaires
The City on the Edge of Forever: The Original Teleplay that Became the Classic Star Trek Episode (1977) — Postface, quelques éditions — 527 exemplaires
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August/September 2009, Vol. 117, Nos. 1 & 2 (2009) — Contributeur — 19 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Bornikova, Phillipa
- Date de naissance
- 1951
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Los Angeles, California, USA
New Mexico, USA - Études
- New Mexico School of Law
- Agent
- Kay McCauley
- Notice de désambigüisation
- Melinda Snodgrass authors the Linnet Ellery series under the pseudonym Phillipa Bornikova.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 75
- Aussi par
- 31
- Membres
- 3,004
- Popularité
- #8,493
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 74
- ISBN
- 137
- Langues
- 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.… (plus d'informations)