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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: 3.99 · 21,648 ratings · 2,314 reviews · 96 distinct works • Similar authors

	Trouble and Her Friends 3.80 avg rating — 1,478 ratings — published 1994 — 16 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 3.81 avg rating — 1,056 ratings — published 1995 — 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
	Death by Silver (Julian Lynes and Ned Mathey, #1) by Melissa Scott (Goodreads Author), Amy Griswold (Goodreads Author) 3.86 avg rating — 1,036 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
	Allegiance (Stargate Atlantis, #18) by Melissa Scott (Goodreads Author), Amy Griswold (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 629 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 4.17 avg rating — 618 ratings — published 2001 — 11 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) by Melissa Scott (Goodreads Author), Amy Griswold (Goodreads Author) 4.19 avg rating — 492 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Dreamships 3.68 avg rating — 530 ratings — published 1992 — 14 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) 4.01 avg rating — 477 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Five-Twelfths of Heaven (Roads of Heaven, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 466 ratings — published 1985 — 8 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) 4.18 avg rating — 418 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

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Astreiant (5 books)
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4.03 avg rating — 2,762 ratings

Julian Lynes and Ned Mathey (2 books)
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Amy Griswold (Goodreads Author)

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Roads of Heaven (3 books)
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3.99 avg rating — 1,130 ratings

Dreamships (2 books)
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3.80 avg rating — 809 ratings

The Order of the Air (5 books)
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Jo Graham (Goodreads Author)

3.92 avg rating — 594 ratings

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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

tags: cyberpunk, lgbt

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“You had to draw lines, and that choice was in itself dangerous; all boundaries had a double edge, were like swords that could always be turned against you in the end.
But you still had to choose.”
― Melissa Scott, Trouble and Her Friends

tags: cyberpunk

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“Technology has its place....We respect and honor the past, but we know we can't completely re-create it, nor do we want to do so. The goal of our household, our community, is to live with honor in this word, and to do so we've surrounded ourselves with the trappings of this community, its symbols of honor and purpose, to remind ourselves and to make it easier to keep our faith. But we can't give up everything of the present, neither the Nets nor, for example, modern medicine, not if we're to honor ourselves by taking proper care of our families and our children. We're creating a should-have-been, not what actually was.”
― Melissa Scott, The Jazz

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