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Melissa Scott


USA flag (b.1960)

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
 
New and upcoming books
December 2023

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Fallen
(Firstborn, Lastborn, book 2)
Series
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Dreamships
   1. Dreamships (1992)
   2. Dreaming Metal (1997)
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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)
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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)
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Julian Lynes and Ned Mathey (with Amy Griswold)
   1. Death by Silver (2013)
   2. A Death at the Dionysus Club (2014)
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Firstborn, Lastborn
   1. Finders (2018)
   2. Fallen (2023)
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Gen: Lock
   1. Storm Warning (2020)
   2. Gen: Lock (2021)
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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)
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Anthology series
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Series contributed to
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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)
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Stargate SG-1 (Fandemonium)
   22. Moebius Squared (2012) (with Jo Graham)
   23. Ouroboros (2013)
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Non fiction show
 
Melissa Scott recommends
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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."
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Fallen Host (2002)
(AngeLINK, book 2)
Lyda Morehouse
"An intriguing new voice."
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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."

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Anthologies containing stories by Melissa Scott
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Heroes Ascendant (2024)
(Overwatch 2)
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Black Cat Weekly #60 (2022)
(Black Cat Weekly, book 60)
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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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Awards
John W. Campbell Best Book nominee (1985) : The Game Beyond
John W. Campbell Best New Author winner (1986)
John W. Campbell Best Book winner (1986) : The Game Beyond


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