Melissa Scott is a science fiction and fantasy author noted for her science fiction novels featuring LGBT characters and elaborate settings. Scott studied history at Harvard College and Brandeis University, and earned her PhD. in comparative history. She published her first novel in 1984, and has since written some two dozen science fiction and fantasy works, including three co-authored with her partner, Lisa Barnett. Scott lived with her partner in Portsmouth, New Hampshire for 27 years, until the latter's death of breast cancer on May 2, 2006.
Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy
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Series
Roads of Heaven
1. Five-Twelfths of Heaven (1985)
2. Silence in Solitude (1986)
3. The Empress of Earth (1987)
1. Five-Twelfths of Heaven (1985)
2. Silence in Solitude (1986)
3. The Empress of Earth (1987)
Astreiant
1. Point of Hopes (1995) (with Lisa Barnett)
2. Point of Knives (2012)
3. Point of Dreams (2001) (with Lisa Barnett)
4. Fair's Point (2014)
5. Point of Sighs (2018)
1. Point of Hopes (1995) (with Lisa Barnett)
2. Point of Knives (2012)
3. Point of Dreams (2001) (with Lisa Barnett)
4. Fair's Point (2014)
5. Point of Sighs (2018)
Order of the Air (with Jo Graham)
1. Lost Things (2012)
2. Steel Blues (2013)
3. Silver Bullet (2014)
4. Wind Raker (2014)
5. Oath Bound (2015)
1. Lost Things (2012)
2. Steel Blues (2013)
3. Silver Bullet (2014)
4. Wind Raker (2014)
5. Oath Bound (2015)
Julian Lynes and Ned Mathey (with Amy Griswold)
1. Death by Silver (2013)
2. A Death at the Dionysus Club (2014)
1. Death by Silver (2013)
2. A Death at the Dionysus Club (2014)
Rule of Five (with Don Sakers)
1. The Rule of Five: Year One (2017)
Five Planes (2018)
2. The Rule of Five: Year Two (2018)
1. The Rule of Five: Year One (2017)
Five Planes (2018)
2. The Rule of Five: Year Two (2018)
Novels
The Game Beyond (1984)
Territorial Rights (1985)
A Choice of Destinies (1986)
The Kindly Ones (1987)
The Armor of Light (1988) (with Lisa Barnett)
Mighty Good Road (1990)
Burning Bright (1993)
Trouble and Her Friends (1994)
Shadow Man (1995)
Night Sky Mine (1996)
The Shapes of Their Hearts (1998)
The Jazz (2000)
Water Horse (2021)
The Master of Samar (2023)
Territorial Rights (1985)
A Choice of Destinies (1986)
The Kindly Ones (1987)
The Armor of Light (1988) (with Lisa Barnett)
Mighty Good Road (1990)
Burning Bright (1993)
Trouble and Her Friends (1994)
Shadow Man (1995)
Night Sky Mine (1996)
The Shapes of Their Hearts (1998)
The Jazz (2000)
Water Horse (2021)
The Master of Samar (2023)
Anthology series
Series contributed to
Stargate Atlantis: Legacy
1. Homecoming (2010) (with Jo Graham)
3. Allegiance (2011) (with Amy Griswold)
5. Secrets (2012) (with Jo Graham)
6. Inheritors (2013) (with Jo Graham)
8. Third Path (2015) (with Jo Graham)
Lost Queen (2015)
The Wild Blue (2016)
Pride of the Genii (2018)
1. Homecoming (2010) (with Jo Graham)
3. Allegiance (2011) (with Amy Griswold)
5. Secrets (2012) (with Jo Graham)
6. Inheritors (2013) (with Jo Graham)
8. Third Path (2015) (with Jo Graham)
Lost Queen (2015)
The Wild Blue (2016)
Pride of the Genii (2018)
Non fiction show
Melissa Scott recommends
A Blackened Mirror (2023)
(Memoirs of the Borgia Sibyl, book 1)
Jo Graham
"Once again, Graham proves herself a master of historical fantasy - this time, the Italian Renaissance, portrayed in all its glorious complexity. Giulia Farnese is the ideal protagonist, ardent, ambitious, sharp of wit and tongue, willing to risk everything."
Neptune Crossing (1994)
(Chaos Chronicles, book 1)
Jeffrey A Carver
"Neptune Crossing gives the reader solid science, a complex and believable protagonist - an ordinary man rising to extraordinary circumstances - and an alien presence that is at once convincingly strange and deeply real. I'm really glad to have read this one."
More recommendations
Anthologies containing stories by Melissa Scott
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection (2017)
(Year's Best Science Fiction, book 34)
edited by
Gardner Dozois
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