Melissa A Scott

Dreamships

Burning Bright

Trouble and Her Friends

Shadow Man

Point of Hopes

Night Sky Mine

Dreaming Metal

The Shapes of Their Hearts

Point of Knives: A Novella of Astreiant (A Novel of Astreiant)

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 and a rousing adventure, Point of Knives also revea...

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 terrorism without killing God.

Dreaming Metal

When entertainer and illusionist Celinde Fortune takes her act to Persephone, a planet racked by class struggle, and combines two computer chips that seem to simulate artificial intelligence, she finds her life threatened by the planet's radicals. 15,000 first printing."

Shadow Man

Living on a planet where one's sex is a matter of choice, Warreven, whose decision to be a man precluded his marriage to the planet's prince, suffers a bizarre identity crisis. By the author of Trouble and Her Friends.

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 the encroachments of civilization. It's time to ada...

A Death at the Dionysus Club

In the sequel to Lambda Literary Award-winning Death by Silver, metaphysician Ned Mathey and private detective Julian Lynes again challenge magical and murderous threats in a Victorian London not quite the city in our history books. Mathey is recruited by Scotland Yard to assist the new Metaphysica...

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 before — the man she claimed as the power behind her th...

Point of Hopes: A Novel of Astreiant

Nicolas Rathe is a pointsman, a dedicated watchman in the great city of Astreiant. During the annual trade fair, with a city filled with travelers and merchants, someone is stealing children. The populace is getting angry and frightened and convinced that a foreigner must be to blame. Rathe calls on...