by Melinda Snodgrass | Aug 8, 2013 | TV & Movies
While recovering from food poisoning, and with a completely whacked out sleep cycle I ended up watching all the banked episodes of the TNT show FALLING SKIES. I’ve liked this show from the beginning. Yeah, it’s another alien invasion story, but it looked great, I thought Noah Wyle was good as the history professor father, and I really liked his three sons. Every time you thought you knew what the aliens wanted something would surprise you. “A ragtag band of humans fight...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Aug 8, 2013 | Blog
“An Olympic boycott might not be the best way to go. Instead, let’s turn the Winter Games into the gayest games in history. Let the Russian police, if they want, arrest every athlete, every coach from Europe, North American, Australia and other forward-looking countries — that includes you, Uruguay, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa. The teams should march during the opening ceremonies brandishing rainbow flags, holding hands, proclaiming that every one of them supports equal rights...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Aug 1, 2013 | About Writing
Speaking of covers — Tor is going to be re-releasing the first two EDGE books but with brand new, more contemporary covers. My original covers were beautiful, but they didn’t give you much sense of what the books were about. My editor, Stacy Hill, and I have had fun picking out several artists who have the right look and feel for the books. I’m really excited. I think the first two books will come out as trade paperbacks, and maybe the third book as well. I’m...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Aug 1, 2013 | Blog
I’m fortunate to be in a couple of upcoming anthologies out this year. DANGEROUS WOMEN will be released December 3rd. I don’t have a date on OLD MARS yet, but I’ll let folks know. My story in Dangerous Women is set in my space opera universe. The Old Mars story is a stand alone and very Bradburyesque which is odd considering my love of Burroughs. I do love the characters so much that I may have do more with them. In fact, I’ll probably read that story at...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jul 26, 2013 | TV & Movies
After Iron Man 3 and Star Trek: Into Darkness I went into this movie with very low expectations. Which meant I enjoyed Man of Steel more then I expected. Henry Cavill was superb as Clark/Kal-El. The didn’t try to find a clone of Chris Reeves, but he looked very much like Superman from the comics. Amy Adams was an inspired choice as Lois Lane. She is so appealing and David Goyer did a good job of updating that character to make her a modern woman I was rather dreading this film because it...
