Author · born 1960
Melissa Scott
Melissa Scott (born 1960) is an American writer. Born in Little Rock.
Our catalogue lists 7 books by Melissa Scott, mostly queer fantasy, gay fiction and queer science fiction. They span 1988 to 2014. The most-read is Trouble and Her Friends (1994).
Books by Melissa Scott
Trouble and Her Friends
Melissa Scott
Point of Dreams
Melissa Scott, Lisa A. Barnett
Point of Knives
Melissa Scott
Death by Silver
Melissa Scott, Amy Griswold
The Armor of Light
Melissa Scott, Lisa A. Barnett
Steel Blues
Melissa Scott, Jo Graham
Fairs' Point: A Novel of Astreiant (The Novels of Astreiant Book 4)
Melissa Scott
Awards
- 🏆Lambda Literary Awards 2014 — LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror, Death by Silver (winner)
- 🏆Lambda Literary Awards 2002 — LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror, Point of Dreams (winner)
- 🏆Lambda Literary Awards — Overall (winner)
- ✦Locus Awards 2001 — Best Science Fiction Novel, The Jazz (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 1999 — Best Science Fiction Novel, The Shapes of Their Hearts (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 1998 — Best Science Fiction Novel, Dreaming Metal (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 1997 — Best Science Fiction Novel, Night Sky Mine (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 1996 — Best Science Fiction Novel, Shadow Man (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 1986 — Best Science Fiction Novel, Five-Twelfths of Heaven (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 1985 — Best First Novel, The Game Beyond (nominee)
Biography
Melissa Scott is a science fiction and fantasy author noted for her science fiction novels featuring LGBT characters and elaborate settings. 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 life-partner, Lisa Barnett. Scott lived with Lisa, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire for 27 years, until the latter's death of breast cancer on May 2, 2006.