Melissa Scott

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born

Little Rock, Arkansas, The United States

gender

female

website

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

genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy

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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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Books by Melissa Scott

Average rating: 3.75 · 1,831 ratings · 166 reviews · 32 distinct works

	Trouble and Her Friends 3.76 avg rating — 309 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Dreamships 3.67 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Burning Bright 3.72 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Point of Hopes by Melissa Scott, Lisa A. Barnett 3.79 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Point of Dreams by Melissa Scott, Lisa A. Barnett 4.06 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Five-Twelfths of Heaven 4.09 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1985 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Garden (Star Trek Voyager, #11) 3.19 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Dreaming Metal 3.76 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Shadow Man 3.79 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Night Sky Mine 3.86 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Series by Melissa Scott

Roads of Heaven (3 books)
by Melissa Scott

4.10 avg rating — 222 ratings

Astreiant (2 books)
by Melissa Scott, Lisa A. Barnett

3.91 avg rating — 198 ratings

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