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 websitePointsMan.net and publishing a writing guide.Melissa Scott, Conceiving the Heavens: Creating the Science Fiction Novel (1997).
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 Point of Hearts, 2025 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 old blog Melissa Scott's older blog