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Melissa Scott (1) (1960–)

Autore di Trouble and Her Friends

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64+ opere 6,956 membri 141 recensioni 4 preferito

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Melissa Scott is a science fiction writer. She was born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1961. Scott studied history at Harvard University before earning her Ph. D. in comparative history from Brandeis University. Scott's first science fiction book, The Game Beyond, was published in 1984. In 1986, she mostra altro won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Scott received the Lambda Literary Award for Gay/Lesbian Science Fiction in both 1995 and 1996 for the books Trouble and Her Friends and Shadow Man. She is a co-founder of WaveLengths, a journal of gay/lesbian/bisexual-interest science fiction and fantasy. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno

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Opere di Melissa Scott

Trouble and Her Friends (1994) 683 copie
L'astronave che sapeva (1992) 496 copie
Point of Hopes (1995) 388 copie
Burning Bright (1993) 364 copie
The Kindly Ones (1987) 315 copie
Five-Twelfths of Heaven (1985) 297 copie
Proud Helios (1995) 295 copie
The Garden (1997) 267 copie
Mighty Good Road (1990) 264 copie
Shadow Man (1995) 257 copie
Point of Dreams (2001) 254 copie
The Empress of Earth (1987) 247 copie
Dreaming Metal (1997) 242 copie
Silence in Solitude (1979) 235 copie
The Armor of Light (1988) 231 copie
Night Sky Mine (1996) 198 copie
Death By Silver (2013) 191 copie
The Game Beyond (1984) 140 copie
The Roads of Heaven (1987) 136 copie
The Jazz (2000) 136 copie
A Choice of Destinies (1986) 121 copie
Homecoming (2010) 121 copie
The Shapes of Their Hearts (1998) 102 copie
Point of Knives (2012) 100 copie
Fairs' Point (2014) 77 copie
Lost Things (2012) 76 copie
Allegiance (1602) 52 copie
Secrets (2012) 48 copie
Point of Sighs (2018) 46 copie
The Inheritors (2013) 42 copie
Steel Blues (2013) 38 copie
Third Path (2015) 30 copie
The Master of Samar (2023) 25 copie
Ouroboros (2013) 24 copie
Water Horse (2021) 23 copie
Wind Raker (2014) 23 copie
Moebius Squared (2012) 23 copie
Silver Bullet (2014) 22 copie
Oath Bound (2015) 20 copie
The Wild Blue (2016) 9 copie
Jaelle Her Book (2013) — A cura di; Collaboratore — 7 copie
Mercy Mission 3 copie
The Sweet Not-Yet (2003) 3 copie
gen:LOCK YA Novel #2 (2021) 1 copia
The merchant 1 copia

Opere correlate

Carmen Miranda's Ghost Is Haunting Space Station 3 (1990) — Collaboratore — 167 copie
So Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction (2007) — Collaboratore — 132 copie
Arabesques: More Tales of the Arabian Nights (1988) — Collaboratore — 129 copie
The Other Half of the Sky (2013) — Collaboratore — 98 copie
Arabesques II (1989) — Collaboratore — 70 copie
Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture (2002) — Collaboratore — 43 copie
Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures (2008) — Collaboratore — 30 copie
Haunted Hearths & Sapphic Shades: Lesbian Ghost Stories (2008) — Collaboratore — 22 copie
Shades of Blue and Gray: Ghosts of the Civil War (2013) — Collaboratore — 21 copie
To Shape the Dark (2016) — Collaboratore — 18 copie
Imagination Fully Dilated: Science Fiction (2003) — Collaboratore — 12 copie
Daughters of Frankenstein: Lesbian Mad Scientists (2015) — Collaboratore — 12 copie
Deco Punk: The Spirit of the Age (2015) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
Retellings of the Inland Seas (Feral Astrogators) (2020) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

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Surprisingly enjoyable with an interesting end.
 
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thanbini | 1 altra recensione | Nov 15, 2023 |
3 stars.
I'm not sure how a book about magic and investigating a murder, with a interesting shared past for the characters can be dry, but that's what it felt like to me. Unlike other books, I would keep looking, sure that I had read quite a bit and would always be surprised that I was only 5 or 10 percent ahead of where I was the last time I looked. The story was interesting, and so were the characters, but I didn't really connect with the writing itself.
 
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mamawerewolf | 16 altre recensioni | Jun 26, 2023 |
A salvage team is sent to the planet Iadara to recover a downed craft that was holding crystal matrices. the heroine has to return to her old homeworld and overcome uncooperative natives, the weather and conspiracies within the company in order to complete her mission. She winds up being betrayed by her own brother.
It was quite a slog getting through this one.
 
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catseyegreen | Dec 19, 2022 |
This book was actually more like a detective novel than a fantasy novel, and takes place in an alternate history medieval setting where most of the characters are middle-class citizens. Magic is a part of everyday life, mainly in the form of astrology, where the stars determine the lives of the people. There were no coming-of-age rites or epic quests to go on as per the usual fantasy fare; instead the plot revolves around Nicolas Rathe, who works a job equivalent to that of a policeman and investigates a mystery involving disappearing children. The story is utterly simple as all the scenes are basically just Rathe running around the city questioning people-- basically the unglamourous and often uninteresting work that make up what real-life detectives actually do, without any sort of real excitement or action. I wasn't interested in the mystery at all, which there were no real clues about all through the book and then was solved through a series of last-minute revelations. What ultimately kept me interested in the book was its superb world-building, which was detailed, intricate, and felt very real-- probably some of the best world-building I've ever encountered in any story-- and completely outshined everything else in the book.… (altro)
 
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serru | 12 altre recensioni | Oct 6, 2022 |

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