Melissa Scott

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  • Bibliography:
    36 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1984
  • Latest Book:
    December 2023
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Full Series List in Order

The Roads of Heaven Trilogy

1 - Five-Twelfths of Heaven (Apr-1985)
2 - Silence in Solitude (Nov-1986)
3 - Empress of Earth (Nov-1987)

Multi-Author Series List

A Novel of Astreiant

1.5 - Point of Knives (Jul-2012)
3 - Point of Dreams (Jul-2013)
4 - Fairs' Point (May-2014)
5 - Point of Sighs (May-2018)

Star Trek

Proud Helios (Feb-1995)
The Garden (Feb-1997)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

9 - Proud Helios (Feb-1995)

Star Trek: Voyager

11 - The Garden (Feb-1997)

Stargate

Ouroboros (Jun-2013)
Lost Queen (Dec-2015)
The Wild Blue (Jun-2016)
Pride of the Genii (Jun-2018)

Stargate Atlantis

Lost Queen (Dec-2015)
The Wild Blue (Jun-2016)
Pride of the Genii (Jun-2018)

Stargate SG-1

23 - Ouroboros (Jun-2013)

Book List in Order: 36 titles

  • Territorial Rights

    Mills & Boon Desire - 147
    Silhouette Desire - 147

    CALL OF THE WILD Forced to share an office with the science department's new darling, Doug Traxler, Meredith found that her year teaching literature was a nightmare. She never knew what she might find floating in formaldehyde on her desk. Now...

  • The Game Beyond

    A star-flung empire the prize -- in a deadly war of successionThe Silvertree Empress is dead, the last of her line. The heir named in her will is an impossibility, her favorite, Keira Renault, member of a family deposed and disgraced generations befo...

  • Five-Twelfths of Heaven

    The Roads of Heaven Trilogy - 1

    In a space-faring civilization where a single woman is increasingly sisenfranchised, the star pilot Silence Leigh is defrauded from her inheritance by a greedy competitor. Forced to ally with two men, Silence is dragged into a deadly political strugg...

  • A Choice of Destinies

  • Silence in Solitude

    The Roads of Heaven Trilogy - 2

    This sequel to "Five-Twelfths of Heaven" again features the female mage and pilot Silence Leigh as she embarks on a voyage to discover long-lost Earth, held in thrall by mysterious captors for centuries. She must undertake an apparently hopeless resc...

  • The Kindly Ones

    Orestes was a cruel world, cold and inhospitable. Its first colonists were castaways from a crash landing, cling to survival through the institution of strict socio political pontrols. Over the generations life grew somewhat easier, but the code of h...

  • Empress of Earth

    The Roads of Heaven Trilogy - 3

    Following Five-Twelfths of Heaven and Silence in Solitude, this is the third and concluding novel in the Silence Leigh series. Silence Leigh now faces the ultimate test of her skills as a pilot and of her powers as a sage. Silence has finally wangled...

  • The Armor of Light

    A Battle of Wizardy From a History Not Quite Our Own...GOD SAVE THE KING OF SCOTLANDThe heavy summer air of 1593 is full of portents for Elizabeth, England's Queen, and James VI, King of Scotland. A coven of witches secretly controlled by the Wizard...

  • Mighty Good Road

    IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED--HIRE IT DONE! What does a big corporation do when a job is too dirty and dangerous for its own employees? Why hire a freelancer, of course. That's how salvage operators Gwynne Heikki and her sidekick Sten Djuro find ...



  • Dreamships

    A thought-provoking examination of the possibility of artificial intelligence. Reverdy Jian, a freelance dreamspace pilot based on Persephone (an arid world so hot the population lives underground), and her partners Imre Vaughn and Red take on a job ...

  • Burning Bright

    Space pilot and ambitious young game designer Quinn Lioe spends shore leave on the planet Burning Bright, known for its virtual reality games, and soon finds herself playing a game with stakes higher than she imagined. Reprint....

  • Proud Helios

    Star Trek
    Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - 9

    The free flow of traffic to the Gamma Quadrant is vital to the recovery and survival of the planet Bajor and to Federation interests as well. When a mysterious cloaked ship begins raiding wormhole shipping, cleaning out holds and killing entire crews...

  • Trouble and Her Friends

    Less than a hundred years from now, the forces of law and order crack down on the world of the computer nets. The hip, noir adventurers who get by on wit, bravado, and drugs, and haunt the virtual worlds of the Shadows of cyberspace, are up against t...

  • Shadow Man

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    In the far future, human culture has developed five distinctive genders due to the effects of a drug easing sickness from faster-than-light travel. But on the planet Hara, where society is increasingly instability, caught between hard-liner tradi...

  • Night Sky Mine

    The tale of a complex society details the life of young Ista Kelly, a foundling and the only survivor of a pirate raid on an asteroid mine, in a future in which one cannot live without an official identity. Reprint....

  • The Garden

    Star Trek
    Star Trek: Voyager - 11

    Desperately in need of vital nutritional supplies, the crew of the U.S.S. Voyager must risk dealing with an enigmatic race known as the Kirse, legendary for the bountiful crops of their world -- and for their secretive ways. Despite Néelix's warning...

  • Dreaming Metal


    Five years after the Manfred riots, the question of machine intelligence is still a dangerous one on Persephone, and the coolie rights organization Realpeace is not prepared to let it go. For conjurer Celinde Fortune and her musician cousin Fanni...

  • The Shapes of Their Hearts

    In The Shapes of Their Hearts, a computer tape of the brain of a religious prophet has been allowed to merge with an AI; the result is both a religious icon on the planet Idun and a powerful terrorist. Anton Tso must come up with a way to stop the te...

  • The Jazz

    Melissa Scott, winner of the John W. Campbell Award, twice winner of the Lambda Award for best novel, and author of the cyberpunk classic, Trouble and Her Friends, returns with a hip novel of the media-dominated future, when the internet is filled wi...



  • Point of Knives

    A Novel of Astreiant - 1.5

    A welcome return to the vividly realized city of Asteiant with its intricate magics and deadly politics. Point of Knives takes place in the interval between the widely praised earlier novels Point of Hopes and Point of Dreams. A fantastical mystery a...

  • Ouroboros

    Stargate
    Stargate SG-1 - 23

    Old friends, new enemiesWhen Dr Daniel Jackson discovers the location of a lost Ancient laboratory, the temptation to investigate proves impossible to resist...In the lab, he uncovers a powerful device -- a prototype technology designed by the Anci...

  • Point of Dreams

    A Novel of Astreiant - 3

  • It's Good to Be Carly

    It's Good to Be Carly is a superbly creative story that follows four friends named Carly through their typical day. There is a unique twist in this book as it teaches the reader simple Kazakh greetings by using English-sounding words. There are a var...

  • Jaelle Her Book

    Stories and essays by guest authors at the annual Darkover Grand Council, in memory of Judy Gerjuoy (aka Jaelle of Armida) and Darkovercon. This memorial volume commemorates 36 years of Darkovercon and the remarkable woman who brought the con to life...

  • Fairs' Point

    A Novel of Astreiant - 4

    During Dog Moon, the chief entertainment in the great city of Astreiant, for nobles and commons alike, is the basket-terrier races at New Fair. This year, with spectacularly bad timing, the massive and suspicious bankruptcy of a young nobleman has co...

  • Lost Queen

    Stargate
    Stargate Atlantis

    Told from the point of view of the Wraith, this novella sees the Atlantis team called upon to help find a missing Wraith queen, lost on a plague-ridden world. But the shifting tides of trust and mistrust among the Wraith and between the Lanteans and ...

  • The Wild Blue

    Stargate
    Stargate Atlantis

    In deep danger…In the peace following Atlantis's treaty with the Wraith, Ronon Dex's homeworld of Sateda is rebuilding after the devastating Wraith cull that almost destroyed its civilization.Hoping to restore power to the capitol, Ronon and Dr. Ra...

  • Point of Sighs

    A Novel of Astreiant - 5

    Autumn downpours soak the city of Astreiant and cast a gloomy pall over its streets, while storms at sea have delayed merchant ships bearing important cargoes from distant lands. For Philip Eslingen, whose stars are bad for water, the season adds dam...

  • Pride of the Genii

    Stargate
    Stargate Atlantis

    Pride before a fall...As guests of Chief Ladon Radim, Colonel Sheppard's team witness the launch of the Genii's first starship - Pride of the Genii.Radim needs the Pride's first mission to be a success if he's going to control the hard-line opponents...



  • Finders

    Cassilde Sam is a barely solvent salvage operator, hunting for relics in the ruins left by the mysterious Ancestors -- particularly the color-coded Elements that power most of humanity’s current technology, including the ability to navigate through...

  • STARGATE SG-1 Ouroboros

    Old friends, new enemiesWhen Dr Daniel Jackson discovers the location of a lost Ancient laboratory, the temptation to investigate proves impossible to resist...In the lab, he uncovers a powerful device - a prototype technology designed by the Ancient...

  • Storm Warning

    The first-ever auiobook for gen:LOCK, the hit animated sci-fi series starring Michael B. Jordan, Dakota Fanning, David Tennant, and Maisie Williams!The last few months have been a whirlwind for Cammie MacCloud. Ever since she agreed to join the gen:L...

  • Water Horse

    For the last twenty years, Esclin Aubrinos, arros of the Hundred Hills, has acted jointly with Alcis Mirielos, the kyra of the Westwood, and the rivermaster of Riverholme to defend their land of Allanoth against the Riders who invade from Manan acros...

  • The Fire In Fortitude

    Does the darkness expose the actual reality that's shadowed by the light? Darkness holds many secrets, and darkness can make even the most innocent room appear to be something it's NOT. What if darkness is the truth? Does the darkness expose the actu...

  • The Master of Samar

    Rejected by his aristocratic family, Gil Irichels has been content to make his living as a traveling curse-breaker, working with his lover, the feral mage Envar Cassi, and their bodyguard, swordswoman Arak min'Aroi. After a series of deaths leave him...

  • Fallen

    Nic en Doroney was promised an education and an academic career in exchange for sharing the nanite burden she carries in her bloodstream. Instead, the Novilis family broke that bargain, and now Nic is captain of a small starship, competing with large...

Award-Winning Books by Melissa Scott

Fairs' Point
2015 Spectrum Award -- Novel


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Melissa Scott has published 36 books.

Melissa Scott does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Fallen, was published in December 2023.

The first book by Melissa Scott, Territorial Rights, was published in July 1984.

Yes. Melissa Scott has 1 series.
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