Melinda Snodgrass
Teoksen The Tears of the Singers tekijä
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(eng) Melinda Snodgrass authors the Linnet Ellery series under the pseudonym Phillipa Bornikova.
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Tekijän teokset
A Very Large Array: New Mexico Science Fiction and Fantasy (1987) — Toimittaja; Avustaja — 31 kappaletta
George R. R. Martin Presents Wild Cards: Pairing up: tales of love & lust from the world of the Wild Cards (2023) — Toimittaja — 18 kappaletta
George R. R. Martin Presents Wild Cards: Sins of the Father: A Graphic Novel (2023) — Tekijä — 6 kappaletta
The Hands that are not There 3 kappaletta
Degradation Rites 2 kappaletta
A Token Of A Better Age 2 kappaletta
The Wayfarer's Advice 2 kappaletta
Les larmes des baladins 1 kappale
The Rook 1 kappale
No Mystery, No Miracle 1 kappale
My Heart Waketh 1 kappale
Go Up Into Gilead And Take Balm 1 kappale
Until Daybreak And The Shadows Flee Away 1 kappale
I Will Redeem Them From Death 1 kappale
Relative Difficulties 1 kappale
Mirror of the Soul 1 kappale
Lovers 2 1 kappale
The Devil's Triangle 1 kappale
The Crooked Man 1 kappale
A Face for the Cutting Room Floor 1 kappale
Requiem 1 kappale
Blood Ties 1 1 kappale
Blood Ties 2 1 kappale
Blood Ties 3 1 kappale
Blood Ties 4 1 kappale
Blood Ties 5 1 kappale
Blood Ties 6 1 kappale
Lovers 1 1 kappale
Lovers 3 1 kappale
For Nation Shall Rise Against Nation 1 kappale
Lovers 4 1 kappale
Lovers 5 1 kappale
Lovers 6 1 kappale
Dark Of The Moon 1 kappale
Star Power 1 kappale
Blood On The Sun 1 kappale
An Abomination Of Desolation 1 kappale
His Enemies Shall Lick The Dust 1 kappale
The Words Of A Talebearer Are As Wounds 1 kappale
Associated Works
The City on the Edge of Forever: The Original Teleplay that Became the Classic Star Trek Episode (1977) — Jälkisanat, eräät painokset — 527 kappaletta
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August/September 2009, Vol. 117, Nos. 1 & 2 (2009) — Avustaja — 19 kappaletta
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- Muut nimet
- Bornikova, Phillipa
- Syntymäaika
- 1951
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Asuinpaikat
- Los Angeles, California, USA
New Mexico, USA - Koulutus
- New Mexico School of Law
- Agentti
- Kay McCauley
- Erotteluhuomautus
- Melinda Snodgrass authors the Linnet Ellery series under the pseudonym Phillipa Bornikova.
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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.… (lisätietoja)