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Melissa Scott

メリッサ・スコット

Merissa Sukotto

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1960-01-01 （Little Rock, Arkansas）
Nationality
American
Languages
English
Residence History
Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Career

Occupations
Novelist, Short story writer
Active Years
1984-

Education

Harvard College
History / History Department
Degree: BA
Country: United States
Brandeis University
Comparative History
Degree: PhD
Country: United States
Earned PhD in comparative history

Awards

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
1986
Category: Best New Writer
Result: winner
Lambda Literary Award
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Shadow Man

1996 Science Fiction

Focuses explicitly on issues of sexuality and gender

LGBTSexualityGender

Trouble and Her Friends

1994 Science Fiction

Cyberpunk science fiction novel

CyberpunkLGBT

The Game Beyond

1984 Science Fiction

First novel

Five-Twelfths of Heaven

1985 Fantasy

First book in Silence Leigh trilogy

Bibliography

  • The Game Beyond (1984)
  • Five-Twelfths of Heaven (1985)
  • Silence in Solitude (1986)
  • The Empress of Earth (1987)
  • A Choice of Destinies (1986)
  • The Kindly Ones (1987)
  • The Armor of Light (1988, with Lisa A. Barnett)
  • Mighty Good Road (1990)
  • Dreamships (1992)
  • Burning Bright (1993)
  • Trouble and Her Friends (1994)
  • Shadow Man (1996)
  • Night Sky Mine (1996)
  • Dreaming Metal (1997)
  • The Shapes of Their Hearts (1998)
  • The Jazz (2000)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Elaborate and well-constructed settings
Recurring Motifs
LGBT charactersComplex societies

Legacy

Noted for science fiction novels featuring LGBT characters and elaborate settings. Won John W. Campbell Award and Lambda Literary Awards.