Melissa Scott

Melissa Scott (born 1960) is an American science fiction and fantasy author noted for her science fiction novels featuring LGBT characters and elaborate settings.
Biography
Scott was born 1960, in Little Rock, Arkansas, 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 A. Barnett.
Scott's work is known for elaborate and well-constructed settings. While many of her protagonists are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, critic Phyllis Betz notes that the characters' genders or orientations are rarely a major focus of Scott's stories. Shadow Man, alone among Scott's works, focuses explicitly on issues of sexuality and gender.
She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction in 1986, and has won several Lambda Literary Awards.
In addition to writing, Scott also teaches writing, offering classes via her website and publishing a writing guide.
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.
Bibliography
The Game Beyond, 1984
The Silence Leigh trilogy
Five-Twelfths of Heaven, 1985
Silence in Solitude, 1986
The Empress of Earth, 1987
A Choice of Destinies, 1986
The Kindly Ones, 1987
The Armor of Light, with Lisa A. Barnett, 1988
Mighty Good Road, 1990
Dreamships, 1992
Burning Bright, 1993
Trouble and Her Friends, 1994
Shadow Man, 1996
Night Sky Mine, 1996
Dreaming Metal, 1997, a continuation from Dreamships
The Shapes of Their Hearts, 1998
The Jazz, 2000
Astreiant
Point of Hopes, with Lisa A. Barnett, 1995
Point of Dreams, with Lisa A. Barnett, 2001
Point of Knives, 2012
Fairs' Point, 2014
Point of Sighs, 2018
The Order of the Air
Lost Things, with Jo Graham, 2012
Steel Blues, with Jo Graham, 2013
Silver Bullet, with Jo Graham, 2014
Wind Raker, with Jo Graham, 2015
Oath Bound, with Jo Graham, 2015
Julian Lynes and Ned Mathey
Death by Silver, with Amy Griswold, 2013
A Death at the Dionysus Club, with Amy Griswold, 2014
Firstborn, Lastborn
Finders, 2018
Novels based in the Star Trek universe
Proud Helios (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
The Garden (Star Trek: Voyager)
Novels based in the Stargate Atlantis universe
Homecoming, with Jo Graham, 2010 (book 1 of the Legacy series)
Allegiance, with Amy Griswold, 2011 (book 3 of the Legacy Series)
Secrets, with Jo Graham, 2012 (book 5 of the Legacy Series)
The Inheritors, with Jo Graham, 2013 (book 6 of the Legacy Series)
Third Path, 2015 (book 8 of the Legacy Series)
Novels based in the Stargate SG-1 universe
Moebius Squared, with Jo Graham, 2012
Ouroboros, 2013
Novels based on gen:Lock
Storm Warning 2020
Nonfiction
Conceiving the Heavens: Creating the Science Fiction Novel (1997)
References
External links
Melissa Scott's current blog/website
Melissa Scott's old blog
Melissa Scott's older blog
1960 births
20th-century American novelists
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American novelists
21st-century American women writers
American fantasy writers
American lesbian writers
American LGBT novelists
American science fiction writers
American women novelists
Brandeis University alumni
Cyberpunk writers
Harvard College alumni
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer winners
Lambda Literary Award winners
LGBT people from Arkansas
Living people
Women science fiction and fantasy writers
Writers from Little Rock, Arkansas