Melissa Scott, Author Tor Books $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85875-9
Recipient of two successive Lambda Awards for Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Novel (for Trouble and Her Friends, 1994, and for Shadow Man, 1995), Scott here presents a well-developed future rife with cybertechnology, space travel, artificial habitats...
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Melissa Scott. Candlemark & Gleam, $22.45 trade paper (302p) ISBN 978-1-952456-20-6
In this middling sapphic space opera, four-time Lambda Literary Award winner Scott returns to the universe of her 2018 novel Finders, where rebel AI trapped in an alternate dimension called “the possible” wage an everlasting war against humanity....
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Melissa Scott. Candlemark & Gleam, $22.95 trade paper (340p) ISBN 978-1-952456-16-9
Lambda Literary award winner Scott (Shadow Man) sets a solid mystery plot within an aristocratic, Victorian-esque commonwealth held together by magical curses. Traveling cursebreaker Gil Irichels, of the Samar family, was cast out by his kin years...
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Melissa Scott. Candlemark & Gleam, $24.45 trade paper (500p) ISBN 978-1-952456-01-5
Sumptuous storytelling, well-defined characters, and superb attention to detail animate this outstanding epic fantasy from Lambda Literary Award winner Scott (Trouble and Her Friends). The story centers on charismatic King Esclin as he works to...
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Melissa Scott. Candlemark & Gleam, $20.95 trade paper (372p) ISBN 978-1-936460-88-5
War, and its disastrous aftermath, is a recurring theme in Scott’s standalone space opera. Desperate for a job, salvagers Cassilde Sam and Dai Winter accept help from Summerlad Ashe, their former partner and lover, who betrayed them during a war...
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Melissa Scott. Lethe, $18 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-59021-645-3
In this slow-burning fifth fantasy procedural set in the city of Astreiant (after 2014’s Fairs’ Point), Adjunct Nicholas Rathe and his lover, Guard Captain Philip Eslingen, are once again drawn into unsavory matters of murder, corruption, and...
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Melissa Scott. Lethe, $13 trade paper (122p) ISBN 978-1-59021-381-0
Scott returns to the intrigue-laden city of Astreiant in this novella, which bridges the gap between 1995’s Point of Hopes and 2001’s Point of Dreams. Adjunct Point Nicolas Rathe, peacekeeper and investigator, is summoned to the site of the bizarre...
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Melissa Scott, Author Tor Books $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-85877-3
Taped from the fanatic brain of the prophet Gabril Aurik and melded into an artificial intelligence on the blockaded planet Eden, a wiseacre CyberGod called the Memoriant threatens to wreck the interstellar cybernetwork knitting Scott's latest far-fu
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Melissa Scott, Author Tor Books $22.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-85876-6
Celinde Fortune is the top stage magician on the planet Persephone, equally famed for her marvelously complex illusions and the grace she imparts to the robots in her act. Unfortunately, not everyone on Persephone is impressed by life-like robots or
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Melissa Scott, Author Tor Books $22.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-85800-1
Political intrigue set in a far future that features a radically different human culture hinging on a multitude of genders is the theme of Scott's (Trouble and Her Friends) new work. The drug hyperlumin-A, which eases sickness from faster-than-light
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Melissa Scott, Author Tor Books $22.95 (379p) ISBN 978-0-312-85733-2
Scott's talents for creating a future both hauntingly familiar and exotically remote are showcased in this feminist cyberpunk romp. Cerise and Trouble are lesbian lovers who plug into computer networks to steal industrial secrets to sell on the gray
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Melissa Scott, Author Tor Books $21.95 (349p) ISBN 978-0-312-85502-4
Scott's accomplished new novel shares some of Dreamships 's interest in virtual reality, but in a much different context. While her spaceship is undergoing repairs on Burning Bright, a planet enriched by its location on the interstellar trade route...
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Melissa Scott, Author Tor Books $21.95 (342p) ISBN 978-0-312-85153-8
Scott ( Mighty Good Road ) puts a slightly different spin on the SF staples (and present-day impossibilities) of faster-than-light (FTL) travel and artificial intelligence (AI); the former is part of the novel's well-thought-out future atmosphere,...
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Melissa Scott, Author Tor Books $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-86802-4
Best known for her densely conceived, far-future settings, complex plotting and radical political commentary, Scott (Dreaming Metal; The Shapes of Their Hearts) here offers her fans a more straightforward, near-future cyberthriller. Tin Lizzy,...
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Melissa Scott, Author, Lisa A. Barnett, With Tor Books $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85844-5
This new collaborative effort by Scott and Barnett, like their first (The Armor of Light), is a well-researched medieval fantasy told in a literate and urbane mannerist style. Rathe-a handsome, young, incorruptible pointsman (basically, a police...
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Melissa Scott and Jo Graham. Crossroad (www.crossroadpress.com), $14.99 trade paper (350p) ISBN 978-1-937530-03-7
In interwar America, a relic from an Italian archeological dig near Lake Nemi unleashes a long-forgotten evil on the world, a demonic figure who can hop from body to body as casually as a person changes clothes. As the demon searches for a host who...
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Melissa Scott, Author, Lisa A. Barnett, Author, Lisa A. Barnett, Joint Author Tor Books $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-86782-9
What do gardening, astrology, the theater, magic and fantasy have in common? In this fine sequel to the authors' well-received Point of Hopes (1995) and The Armor of Light (1988), the common thread is murder. Scott and Barnett have created an...
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