2024-11-04
1 小时 23 分钟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.