Melissa Scott

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Melissa Scott (born 1960) is a science fiction and fantasy author from Little Rock, Arkansas, noted for her science fiction novels featuring lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered characters and elaborate settings.

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[edit] Biography

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 notable for the elaborate and well-constructed settings. While many (if not most) 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.

In addition to writing, Scott also teaches writing, offering writing classes via her website[1] and publishing a writing guide.[2]

Scott lived with her partner, author Lisa A. Barnett, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire until the latter's death of breast cancer on May 2, 2006. [3]

[edit] Bibliography

  • The Game Beyond, 1984
  • A Choice of Destinies, 1986
  • The Kindly Ones, 1987
  • Mighty Good Road, 1990
  • Dreamships, 1992
  • Burning Bright, 1993
  • Trouble and Her Friends, 1995, Lambda Literary Award Winner
  • Dreaming Metal, 1997
  • Night Sky Mine, 1997
  • Conceiving the Heavens: Creating the Science Fiction Novel, 1997
  • Shadow Man, 1996, Lambda Literary Award Winner
  • The Shapes of Their Hearts, 1998
  • The Jazz, 2000
  • The Silence Leigh trilogy -
    • The Empress of Earth, 1987
    • Five-Twelfths of Heaven, 1985
    • Silence in Solitude, 1986

Written with Lisa A. Barnett

She has also written novels based upon Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager: Proud Helios and The Garden.

  • Conceiving the Heavens: Creating the Science Fiction Novel (1997)

[edit] External links

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ http://www.pointsman.net/mpage/mainpage.html
  2. ^ Melissa Scott, Conceiving the Heavens: Creating the Science Fiction Novel (1997).
  3. ^ Locus 2006 News
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