
Melissa Scott is a science fiction and fantasy author noted for her science fiction novels featuring LGBT characters and elaborate settings. Scott studied history at Harvard College and Brandeis University, and earned her PhD. in comparative history. She published her first novel in 1984, and has since written some two dozen science fiction and fantasy works, including three co-authored with her life-partner, Lisa Barnett. Scott lived with Lisa, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire for 27 years, until the latter's death of breast cancer on May 2, 2006.

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection
2014
ISBN 9781250046208
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection
2017
ISBN 9781250119247
Proud Helios
2000
ISBN 9780743420402
Heiresses of Russ 2016: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction
2016
ISBN 9781590216774
The Garden
1997
ISBN 9780743453714
So Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction
2007
ISBN 9781560235903
The Other Half of the Sky
2013
ISBN 9781936460441
Heiresses of Russ 2014: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction
2014
ISBN 9781310488399
Mondi senza fine - parte 3
2018
ISBN 9788852091681
To Shape the Dark (Feral Astrogators)
2016
ISBN 9781936460670
Shadow Man
2009
ISBN 9781590212424
Trouble and Her Friends
2014
ISBN 9781590216002
Storm Warning: An AFK Book (gen:Lock)
2020
ISBN 9781338608649
Daughters of Frankenstein: Lesbian Mad Scientists!
2015
ISBN 9781590213605
The Jazz
2010
ISBN 9781429980418
Point of Dreams
2012
ISBN 9781590213131
Point of Knives
2012
ISBN 9781590213810
Burning Bright
2012
ISBN 9780575127166
S/trek Voyager #11 The Garden
2012
ISBN 9781471107115
Point of Hearts: A Novel of Astreiant
2025
ISBN 9798991866804
The Garden: Star Trek Voyager #11

Five-twelfths of Heaven
1985
ISBN 9780671559526
Point of Hopes
2024
ISBN 9798989500901
Far Horizons: Volume One of the Travelers' Tales
2014