Murdock, M S
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1947- ) US author who began writing sf with a Star Trek tie, Web of the Romulans (1983), and who later continued in much the same vein with her two Buck Rogers sequences: the Buck Rogers Martian Wars Trilogy beginning with Buck Rogers: Rebellion 2456 (1989) and one title contributed to the Buck Rogers Inner Planets Trilogy: Buck Rogers: Prime Squared (1990). In between, Murdock composed a Space-Opera series of her own – Vendetta (1987) and Dynteryx (1988) – but this did little to modify a sense that her use of the conventions of 1980s adventure sf, though professional, lacked a personal touch. [JC]
see also: Buck Rogers XXVC.
Melinda Seabrooke Murdock
born Omaha, Nebraska: 30 April 1947
works
ties
series
Star Trek
- Star Trek #10: Web of the Romulans (New York: Pocket Books, 1983) [tie to Star Trek: Star Trek: pb/Boris Vallejo]
Buck Rogers Martian Wars Trilogy
- Buck Rogers: Rebellion 2456 (Lake Geneva, Wisconsin: TSR, 1989) [tie to the series: Buck Rogers Martian Wars Trilogy: pb/Don Carroll]
- Buck Rogers: Hammer of Mars (Lake Geneva, Wisconsin: TSR, 1989) [tie to the series: Buck Rogers Martian Wars Trilogy: pb/Don Carroll]
- Buck Rogers: Armageddon Off Vesta (Lake Geneva, Wisconsin: TSR, 1989) [tie to the series: Buck Rogers Martian Wars Trilogy: pb/Don Landwehrle and The Image Bank]
Buck Rogers Inner Planets Trilogy
- Buck Rogers: Prime Squared (Lake Geneva, Wisconsin: TSR, 1990) [tie to the series: Buck Rogers Inner Planets Trilogy: pb/Jerry Bingham]
non-ties
series
Vendetta
- Vendetta (New York: Popular Library/Questar, 1987) [Vendetta: pb/Tim Hildebrandt]
- Dynteryx (New York: Popular Library/Questar, 1988) [Vendetta: pb/Tim Hildebrandt]
individual titles
- A Sea of Troubles (no place given: iUniverse/Writers Club Press, 2002) [pb/M S Murdock]
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