Melinda M. Snodgrass
Snodgrass at the 2018 Phoenix Comic Fest
Born	(1951-11-27)November 27, 1951 (age 73) Los Angeles,California, U.S.
Occupation	Writer
Genre	Science fiction, television
Notable works	Wildcards anthology series

Melinda M. Snodgrass (born November 27, 1951) is an Americanscience fiction writer for print and television.^[1] In February 2021 Melinda was the Screenwriting Guest of Honor and Keynote Speaker at the 39th annualLife, the Universe, & Everything professional science fiction and fantasy arts symposium.^[2]

Snodgrass lives inSanta Fe, New Mexico. In her spare time she is anequestrian who competes indressage competition.^[3]

Snodgrass holds a degree in history from theUniversity of New Mexico, as well as a law degree from theUniversity of New Mexico School of Law. Her experience as a lawyer informed the Linnet Ellery series she published under the pen name Phillipa Bornikova (This Case Is Gonna Kill Me, 2012;Box Office Poison, 2013;Publish and Perish, 2018, all by Tor Books).^[3]

Snodgrass wrote several episodes ofStar Trek: The Next Generation^[4] while serving as the series' story editor during its second and third seasons. She has also contributed produced scripts for the seriesOdyssey 5,The Outer Limits,SeaQuest DSV, andReasonable Doubts; she was also a consulting producer onThe Profiler.

She has also writtenscience fiction novels and short stories, notably theCircuit trilogy and is the co-editor and a frequent story contributor toGeorge R. R. Martin's long-runningWild Cards shared world series.^[5]

Snodgrass helped recover a version of the award-winningStar Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Measure of a Man" by saving an oldVHS cassette.^[6] This allowed a new version to be reconstructed from existing film shots, and an extended cut with 13 minutes of additional footage was released in HD in 2012.^[6]

• "The Measure of a Man" (1989)
• "Pen Pals" (1989)
• "Up the Long Ladder" (1989)
• "The Ensigns of Command" (1989)
• "The High Ground" (1990)

• "Dances with Sharks" (1991)

• "Enemy in Our Midst" (1991)

• "FAP" (1992)
• "Silence" (1992)
• "Legacy" (1993)
• "The Ties That Bind" (1993)

• "The Sandkings" (1995) (from a story byGeorge R. R. Martin)
• "Living Hell" (1995)

• Wild Cards series
  • "Degradation Rites" (1987) inWild Cards^[7]
  • “Relative Difficulties” (1987) inAces High^[8]
  • “Mirrors of the Soul” (1988) inAces Abroad^[9]
  • “Blood Ties” (1988) inDown and Dirty^[10]
  • “The Devil's Triangle” inOne-Eyed Jacks^[11]
  • “Lovers Parts I-VI” (19) inJokertown Shuffle^[12]
  • "Galahad in Blue" (2014) inLowball^[13]
• “The Wayfarer’s Advice” (2010) inSongs of Love and Death, anthology edited byGeorge R. R. Martin andGardner Dozois^[14][15]
• "No Mystery, No Miracle" (2011) inDown These Strange Streets, anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois^[16]
• "Written in Dust" (2013) inOld Mars, anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois^[17][18]
• "The Hands That Are Not There" (2013) inDangerous Women, anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois^[19]

• The Tears of the Singers (1984)

• Circuit (1986)
• Circuit Breaker (1987)
• Final Circuit (1988)

• Queen's Gambit Declined (1989)

• Double Solitaire (1992)

• The Edge of Reason (2008)
• The Edge of Ruin (2010)
• The Edge of Dawn (2015)

• The High Ground (2016)
• In Evil Times (2017)
• The Hidden World (2018)
• Currency of War (2019)^[20]
• The Thucydides Trap (2023)^[21]

• This Case Is Gonna Kill Me (2012)
• Box Office Poison (2013)
• Publish and Perish (2018)

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