Melissa Scott Books in Order

A contemporary romance set in academia, where literature teacher Meredith is forced to share space with Doug Traxler, the science department's rising star. Rivalry, practical jokes, and close quarters turn annoyance into attraction.

The Silvertree Empress is dead, and the heir named in her will seems impossible. As factions scramble for power, Keira Renault has to outplay rivals in both simulation and reality to keep the empire from tearing itself apart.

Star pilot Silence Leigh lives in a future where empire is tightening and women are losing ground. Her rare gift for navigating the alchemical star-roads may be humanity's best hope of reaching lost Earth.

In this alternate history, Alexander the Great turns back from India and sets his sights on the west. Prophecy, conquest, and political ambition reshape the ancient world.

Silence Leigh may be the only person able to pass the barrier around Earth, but talent alone will not get her there. She has to master her powers while rival interests close in from every side.

The road to Earth has become the center of a brutal struggle. Silence Leigh and her allies face siege, rivalry, and high-stakes choices in the final volume of this richly imagined trilogy.

Orestes is a bitterly cold world held together by harsh custom and old necessity. An offworld envoy is drawn into feud, politics, and stranger forces that threaten the balance keeping its people alive.

In the heavy summer of 1593, omens gather around Elizabeth of England and James VI of Scotland. Court politics and occult danger meet in a historical fantasy of crowns, plots, and prophecy.

Salvage operators Gwynne Heikki and Sten Djuro take what should be a straightforward recovery job on an undeveloped planet. The closer they get to the ground, the more obvious it becomes that the mission is anything but simple.

Reverdy Jian is a freelance dreamspace pilot on the harsh world of Persephone, where every job can tip into danger. A routine contract pulls her crew into deeper trouble involving power, loyalty, and the nature of machine minds.

Pilot and game developer Quinn Lioe expects shore leave on a busy free-port world, not a spiral into trouble. Trade, alien politics, and a dangerous game turn Burning Bright into a trap.

Retired hacker India Carless, once known online as Trouble, is dragged back when someone starts using her old identity. To stop the damage, she has to face old enemies, old networks, and an old lover.

When guild apprentices begin disappearing in Astreiant, pointsman Nicolas Rathe is forced into a knot of magic, danger, and civic politics. The case also throws him together with ex-soldier Philip Eslingen, who has troubles of his own.

A cloaked raider is hitting shipping near the Bajoran wormhole and pushing the region toward crisis. Sisko must work with Gul Dukat long enough to stop the attacks, rescue his people, and avoid a wider war.

In a far future where most human cultures recognize five sexes, the world of Hara clings to a rigid binary. Prejudice, politics, and the mystery of the so-called shadow men turn that divide deadly.

Kelly 2/1 Ista is an apprentice hypothecary learning to handle quasi-living software in virtual space. Her training becomes far more dangerous when technology, commerce, and hidden interests start to collide.

A practical nonfiction guide to writing science fiction that feels believable and alive. Scott covers ideas, craft, worldbuilding, character, and the habits that turn imagination into workable stories.

Years after the Manfred riots, the question of machine intelligence is still explosive on Persephone. Activists, corporations, and artificial minds collide in a sequel that turns political argument into real danger.

On Idun, the uploaded mind of a religious prophet has merged with an AI. Faith, politics, and machine intelligence collide as people struggle to understand what kind of being now exists.

In this near future, the internet is flooded with crafted misinformation known as Jazz, equal parts business and art form. Truth itself becomes contested ground, with real human costs.

Astreiant is swept up by a scandalous new play, and the mania around it hides darker motives. Rathe and Eslingen follow a trail of murder, theater intrigue, and old resentments through one of the city's most theatrical seasons.

Shaken by the discovery of Rodney McKay's fate, Sheppard's team retreats to Atlantis to regroup. But grief, pressure, and fragile alliances leave little time before the next strike.

Atlantis has returned to Earth, and the expedition members are trying to build safer lives. Then the city rises again, and Pegasus calls them back to face a newly unified Wraith threat.

In 1929, the draining of Lake Nemi uncovers more than ancient wreckage. The Gilchrist Aviation crew find themselves mixed up in archaeology, old powers, and a mystery that refuses to stay buried.

Stranded in Ancient Egypt after the events of *Moebius*, SG-1 has settled into uneasy new lives. That calm does not last, and time trouble soon catches up with them again.

Rathe and Eslingen have gone their separate ways, but a murder drags them back into each other's orbit. Illegal business, divided loyalties, and unfinished feeling sharpen this brisk Astreiant mystery.

In the aftermath of battle, Sheppard's team is scattered and struggling to regroup. Their war with Queen Death darkens as hidden motives and hard choices come to the surface.

Metaphysician Ned Mathey cannot afford to turn away work, even when a wealthy new client feels wrong from the start. After violent magic and murder strike, Ned and private detective Julian Lynes are pulled into London's occult underworld.

Queen Death is mustering her fleet, and Atlantis's alliances are starting to crack. The fight for survival narrows around an Ancient weapon that may be too terrible to use and too dangerous to ignore.

Daniel Jackson discovers the location of a lost Ancient laboratory, and SG-1 cannot resist investigating. Ancient technology, buried secrets, and the usual risk of catastrophe follow close behind.

A rash of plane crashes in the Rockies sends Mitch Sorley and Lewis Segura into a winter search mission. Bad weather is only the beginning of what they find in the mountains.

Gilchrist Aviation enters a coast-to-coast air race to keep the business alive, but winning is only the first problem. Sabotage, pressure, and uncanny trouble crowd the skies.

Ned Mathey and Julian Lynes return for another Victorian London case, this time circling nightlife, secrecy, and old magic. Their partnership deepens as murder turns a glittering social world dangerous.

Dog Moon brings crowds, betting, and basket-terrier races to Astreiant, but festival season turns deadly fast. Rathe and Eslingen have to sort out murder and scheming amid one of the city's busiest public spectacles.

Told from a Wraith point of view, this novella follows the search for a missing queen on a plague-ridden world. Atlantis is pulled into a rescue that is as political as it is dangerous.

As war threatens Europe, Ethiopia becomes one of the first targets of Fascist aggression. The Gilchrist crew are drawn into a larger fight where aviation, politics, and old obligations collide.

Elizabeth Weir and Ronon Dex are prisoners aboard a damaged Vanir ship falling toward Sateda. Their fight to survive folds into the larger war against Queen Death and the unstable future of Pegasus.

A business deal takes the Gilchrist Aviation crew toward Honolulu in the summer of 1935. What should be a useful trip turns into another airborne tangle of danger, history, and the uncanny.

With peace still fragile after a treaty with the Wraith, Sateda tries to rebuild. Ronon Dex's homeworld becomes the focus of a story about recovery, loyalty, and the dangers that survive war.

This anthology gathers stories about women scientists confronting the unknown. It includes Melissa Scott's *Firstborn, Lastborn*, where a scientist and her lover are forced to face the past between them.

Five colony ships vanished into a pocket universe, and their descendants now live across five planes and hundreds of worlds. This opening volume launches a serial space opera full of judges, pirates, refugees, and old mysteries.

Salvage operator Cassilde Sam is dying and needs one last big score. When a former lover offers a shot at riches in the ruins of an Ancestor palace, she takes the gamble, knowing the past may cost more than the reward.

This Rule of Five volume drops readers into a pocket universe shaped by five lost colony ships and five rival human lineages. Missing persons, desperate colonists, and a mystery ship drive the adventure outward.

Autumn storms choke Astreiant's docks as a tea captain is murdered and extortion spreads through the waterfront. Rathe and Eslingen chase corruption, old fears, and something nastier moving beneath the city.

As guests at the launch of the Genii's first starship, Sheppard's team expects politics and ceremony, not disaster. When the mission goes wrong, old rivalries and Pegasus secrets turn a proud moment into a dangerous test.

The second volume widens the Rule of Five universe, pushing its lineages, fugitives, and investigators deeper into crisis. Strange physics and long-buried secrets keep turning local trouble into something much larger.

This anthology reimagines myth and old story patterns through speculative fiction. It includes Melissa Scott's *Sirens*, in which a stranded crew on an abandoned station must decide whether to trust its last survivor.

Teen hacker Cammie MacCloud still feels out of place on the gen:LOCK team, but she sees what others miss. A mission into a deadly storm, with Union forces and a possible spy nearby, gives her nowhere to hide.

This second original gen:LOCK novel returns to the recruits between the show's first two seasons. The war with the Union keeps escalating, and the team has to survive another mission where trust is as fragile as the technology they pilot.

For twenty years, allied rulers have held a hard-won defense along their borderlands. Now fresh danger rises from river and war alike, forcing old partners to make new choices.

Nic en Doroney was promised an education and an academic future in exchange for bearing a nanite burden in her blood. Instead she is pulled into freight, war, and old technology that could rewrite her life again.

Cast off by his aristocratic family, cursebreaker Gil Irichels makes a living beside his lover, the feral mage Envar Cassi. A new job pulls them into Samar's politics, magic, and buried grudges.

Astreiant's pleasure district is thrown into disorder as scheming nobles arrive for an aristocratic wedding. Smuggling, secrets, and street-level danger give Rathe and Eslingen another city-sized knot to untangle.