Melinda Snodgrass - Science Fiction Author - Busted Flush - Edge of Reason - Star Trek - May 2009

Terminator Salvation

Melinda — Mon, 25 May 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Why can’t anybody make a good movie that isn’t an Academy Award contender? Why can’t a summer movie be entertaining and good? Sometimes they succeed. IRON MAN, the first two Spider-Man movies.

So why the rant? Ian and I went and saw TERMINATOR SALVATION last night. Partly it was homework, we wanted to check out the director, but I was hoping for an entertaining couple of hours. Instead I was staring at the screen in disbelief, Read More...

Lost Cities

Melinda — Wed, 20 May 2009 05:00:00 +0100

As usual I was up early, and went downstairs to read in front of the fire, and wait for the breakfast buffet to open. I ended up breakfasting with a young man from Beijing who was making is way slowly back home after years of working in Germany and France. He had been in the film industry in France, and Walter had mentioned I was a screenwriter so we talked about the business of movies. In China there isn’t a film industry per se. There are rich oligarchs wRead More...

Important! Culture War Alert

Melinda — Sun, 17 May 2009 05:00:00 +0100

There is a move afoot by the Catholic bishops and religious fundies to severely curtail stem cell research. People on our side of the debate need to be heard. Please go to this website, follow the instructions and send a comment to the NIH.

This is urgent. Please respond. There are many of us who would benefit from the cures offered by stem cell research. Let's not embrace ignorance.

Wild Card News

Melinda — Wed, 13 May 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Now it can be told. In addition to the reprint of earlier books Tor has purchased another new volume. We're returning to New York City with a focus on the police who worked the mean streets of Jokertown. The book will be called Fort Freak, and will feature old stalwarts and some of our new recruits.

Star Trek

Melinda — Tue, 12 May 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Big confession from the person who left Next Gen bitter, tired and disillusioned, and longing for the original Trek. There were times during those endless, stiff, moralizing episodes on TNG when all of us were longing for Kirk to kiss a girl and slug a bad guy, and Spock to life an eyebrow, and McCoy bluster.

But I digress. I went to the J.J. Abrams Star Trek with no expectations, and ended up enjoying it very much. It played to the feel of what made old Trek so Read More...

Ephesus

Melinda — Fri, 08 May 2009 05:00:00 +0100

After another on time, uneventful, one hour flight with a meal, we arrived at the Izmer airport. We all signed up as drivers at the Avis desk, collected out car and headed off for Selcuk. Walter drove, I sat up front with the maps navigating.

It turned out to be an easy forty-five minute drive. The roads were very good, and despite ending up on a toll road it turned out to be very inexpensive, and we even managed to find the lane for cars without an automatRead More...

Terrific Film

Melinda — Tue, 05 May 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Direct TV is trying to get me to go for the premium channels again by offering me Showtime free for three months. Mostly it seemed to consist of horror flicks, but two night ago I managed to catch THE GREAT DEBATERS. This is a fantastic movie about the debate team from a tiny black college in Texas that goes on to defeat the Harvard debate team in 1936.

The script is wonderful. Every performance is a jewel, and it is especially moving to watch this in the age of Obama.Read More...

Exciting News

Melinda — Sat, 02 May 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Hi, All,

Now it can be announced. Tor is going to reprint the first three Wild Card books. (Hopefully this will just be the start, and people will finally get to read the Black Trump triad). Anyway, this is great news, but even better news is that there will be new material in the first volume.

Carrie Vaughn, Michael Cassutt and David Levine will be providing new stories that will help fill in some of the history in book one.

I hope we get the Read More...

Christian Values????

Melinda — Fri, 01 May 2009 05:00:00 +0100

A new survey has revealed that "The more often Americans to to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists, according to a new survey."

You can read the entire article here.

Religion is such a good thing. Yeah, right.