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Melissa Scott

(1960 - )

About Melissa Scott

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, author Lisa A. Barnett, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire for 27 years, until the latter's death of breast cancer on May 2, 2006.

Series

Roads of Heaven
1. Five-Twelfths of Heaven (1985)
2. Silence in Solitude (1986)
3. The Empress of Earth (1987)
The Roads of Heaven (omnibus) (1987)

Point (with Lisa Barnett)
1. Point of Hopes (1995)
2. Point of Dreams (2001)

Series contributed to

Star Trek : Deep Space Nine
9. Proud Helios (1994)

Star Trek : Voyager
11. The Garden (1997)

Non fiction

Conceiving the Heavens: Creating the Science Fiction Novel (1986)

Awards

John W. Campbell Best New Author winner (1986)

Melissa Scott recommends

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."

Fallen Host (2002)
Lyda Morehouse
"An intriguing new voice."

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