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Melissa Scott

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Born

in Little Rock, Arkansas, The United States

August 07

Website

http://www.pointsman.net/mpage/mainpage.html

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Science Fiction & Fantasy

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September 2007

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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 A. Barnett.

Scott's work is known for the elaborate and well-constructed settings. While many of her protagonists are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered, this is perfectly integrated into the rest of the story and is rarely a major focus of the story. 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.

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Average rating: 3.93 · 20,063 ratings · 2,493 reviews · 100 distinct works • Similar authors

	Trouble and Her Friends 3.80 avg rating — 1,583 ratings — published 1994 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death by Silver (Julian Lynes and Ned Mathey, #1) by Melissa Scott (Goodreads Author), Amy Griswold (Goodreads Author) 3.87 avg rating — 1,233 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Point of Hopes (Astreiant, #1) by Melissa Scott (Goodreads Author), Lisa A. Barnett 3.83 avg rating — 1,139 ratings — published 1995 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Allegiance (Stargate Atlantis, #18) by Melissa Scott (Goodreads Author), Amy Griswold (Goodreads Author) 4.13 avg rating — 687 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Point of Dreams (Astreiant, #3) by Melissa Scott (Goodreads Author), Lisa A. Barnett 4.18 avg rating — 657 ratings — published 2001 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Death at the Dionysus Club (Julian Lynes and Ned Mathey, #2) 4.22 avg rating — 628 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Point of Knives (Astreiant, #2) 4.02 avg rating — 526 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dreamships 3.69 avg rating — 554 ratings — published 1992 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Third Path (Stargate Atlantis, #23) by Melissa Scott (Goodreads Author), Jo Graham (Goodreads Author) 4.19 avg rating — 473 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Five-Twelfths of Heaven (Roads of Heaven, #1) 3.96 avg rating — 489 ratings — published 1985 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Astreiant (6 books)
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Julian Lynes and Ned Mathey (2 books)
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Roads of Heaven (3 books)
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Dreamships (2 books)
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The Order of the Air (5 books)
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Warrior Prince: Prince Rupert of the Rhine

by George Malcolm Thomson

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The Mote in Andrea's Eye

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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

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“Maybe that was why it was almost always the underclasses, the women, the people of color, the gay people, the ones who were already stigmatized as being vulnerable, availble, trapped by the body, who took the risk of the wire.”
― Melissa Scott, Trouble and Her Friends

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“There were still too many people who were afraid of a technology that eluded them, still more who would never have access and resented and feared it in equal measures. Mobilize those groups just once, find a demagogue-and there always were demagogues-and the nets would find themselves destroyed.”
― Melissa Scott, Trouble and Her Friends

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“You know damn well that's not how the wire works, and if you weren't afraid of it, you'd have one yourself. It's the same as the implants, just like the dollie-slots, but it gives me an edge, yeah, because I'm not afraid of it, of what I can do with it.”
― Melissa Scott, Trouble and Her Friends

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The Shattered Gates by Ginn Hale

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Warchild by Karin Lowachee

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Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott

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A Different Light by Elizabeth A. Lynn

5 votes, 11.6%

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