580. The New Mexico Mafia (with Melinda M. Snodgrass)

580. 新墨西哥黑手党(与梅琳达·M·斯诺德格拉斯)

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

艺术

2024-11-04

1 小时 23 分钟

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Melinda M. Snodgrass joins us to discuss the New Mexico Mafia, a tight-knit community of fantasy & science fiction writers that formed in New Mexico in the 1970s and 1980s, a group that included George R. R. Martin, Roger Zelazny, Stephen R. Donaldson, and Fred Saberhagen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  • Hi, I'm David Barr Kirtley, author of the book Save Me Please and Other Stories.

  • And welcome to episode 580 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

  • Our guest today is Melinda Snodgrass, making her sixth appearance on the show.

  • She's the author of over a dozen novels, including the High Ground, Lucifer's War and this Case Is Gonna Kill Me.

  • And her Star Trek script, the Measure of a Man has been voted as one of the ten best Star Trek scripts of all time.

  • Together with George R.R.

  • martin, she edits the Wild Card series of shared world superhero anthologies.

  • And in this interview we'll be discussing her 1987 anthology, A Very Large Array, which collects some of the best short stories by the New Mexico Mafia, a close knit community of science fiction writers that formed in New Mexico in the 1970s and 1980s.

  • And now here's our interview with Melinda Snodgrass.

  • All right, so we're here with Melinda Snodgrass.

  • Welcome to the show.

  • Hi.

  • Thank you, David, for getting in touch and us getting to talk again.

  • I miss seeing you guys.