She is still writing today her most recent novels are Water Horse (2021) and The Fire in Fortitude (2022).ĭreaming Metal (Tor trade reprint, September 1998).
Melissa Scott is remembered today as a pioneer who regularly showcased LGBT protagonists in mainstream SF over 30 years ago. When Reverdy learns that Mitexi plans to turn Manfred over to Kagami on their return, she decides she must protect the construct, though she risks her career and maybe her life… a solid, thoughtful novel from a promising writer. Aboard Mitexi’s ship, Reverdy works with Manfred, Venya’s custom construct, and she grows ever more convinced that Manfred might be sentient. They’re to search for Mitexi’s lost brother Venya - an almost legendary designer of the near-sentient computer “constructs” that help human pilots navigate dreamspace - who vanished soon after his claim to have created a true artificial intelligence was suppressed by his corporate employer, Kagami Ltd. 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 flying a custom-made ship for the secretive Meredalia Mitexi. Collected in single volume edition The Roads of Heaven by the SFBC. CoverĪrt by Kevin Johnson, Neal McPheeters, and Alan Gutierrez. The Silence Leigh trilogy: Five-Twelfths of Heaven, Silence in Solitude, and The Empress of Earth (Baen, 1985-1987). Scientists in this future are on the brink of achieving true artificial intelligence, and these two advances drive the plot. Dreamships is set in a universe in which the FTL drive that rockets travelers across impossible distances relies on a dreamspace navigated using a virtual reality landscape created by the pilot. She followed it with a single sequel Dreaming Metal five years later that one made the long list for the Locus Award for Best Novel. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (now known as The Astounding Award, so it’s no longer associated with a racist loon.)īut Scott didn’t really grab my attention until her 1992 novel Dreamships, her hardcover debut and a thoughtful examination of FTL and A.I. In 1986 she capped off that impressive run by winning the John W. Melissa Scott burst onto the scene with The Game Beyond in 1984 (a nominee for the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel), and followed that quickly with the first two novels in the Silence Leigh trilogy ( Five-Twelfths of Heaven and Silence in Solitude, featuring the first polyamorous triad I can remember encountering in SF) and A Choice of Destinies. Dreamships (Tor paperback reprint, July 1993).
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