Dreamships

In search of the lost brother of the mysterious Mitexi, freelance space pilot Reverdy Jian and her crew discover that the object of their search, the founder of a civil rights movement for artificial intelligence, is insane

Literature & Fiction

Scott, Melissa

United States

Tor Books

Melissa Scott, winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, has been holding down a position as "one of science fiction's most talented newcomers" (The Baltimore Sun) through a string of paperback original successes. With her last novel, Dreamships, she broke into hardcover to widespread acclaim, taking her place among the established names in the field. "A thoughtful, challenging story," said Elizabeth A. Lynn. "She creates a complex world, and her characters are believable and subtle. This is a talent to watch." Now, in Burning Bright, Scott tells a passionate, colorful tale of love and death, her best yet. Setting her tale on the free-port planet of Burning Bright, nexus of trade, politically balanced between the human and Hsai empires in space, and center of virtual-reality-gaming for all of civilization, Scott weaves a network of intrigue and suspense. When spacepilot and ambitious young game designer Quinn Lioe gets shore leave on Burning Bright, determined to play the game at its brilliant center, she becomes enmeshed in the conflict between two great empires, a key figure upon whom the fates of fortunes turn. Once again, Scott constructs a brilliantly complex future society and tells a story that involves the mind and the heart. This is science fiction adventure at its classic best.

Burning Bright

Trouble and Her Friends

After the authorities close down the illegal world of cyberspace, home to the computer netwalkers, India Carless (alias "Trouble") settles down in the corporate world, until a computer hacker forces her into a deadly battle of technology and wits.

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.

The royal city of Astreiant, the capital of the Kingdom of Chenedolle, is bracing itself for the influx of people, money, and trouble that invariably accompanies the Midsummer Fair. For Nicolas Rathe, the wiry, street-smart pointsman with a strong sense of justice, the fair means more work: keeping the peace, preventing the pickpockets from getting too bold, and tracking down runaway youths and apprentices. But this year the number of missing children is far larger than usual; someone has been stealing them away without a trace and the populace is getting angry. At least the children are alive, Rathe knows, even though it adds to the mystery; the necromancers have not noticed any new ghosts of children. To complicate matters, the citizens have another good reason to be anxious: theirs is a world ruled by the stars, and the heavens are now in a transition that heralds an upheaval in the Kingdom and possibly even the death of the reigning Queen. Contenders for the throne are jockeying for position, each claiming that her stars are the luckiest and most suited for the position. Rathe suspects that the astrological portents and the missing children are linked, but has no idea how. With the unlikely help of Philip Eslingen, a handsome, out-of-work soldier, Rathe must find the children and stop whatever dark plans are being hatched before the city explodes into chaos.

Point of Hopes

Barnett, Lisa A.

Night Sky Mine

Ista Kelly, a foundling and the sole survivor of a pirate raid on an asteroid mine, journeys through a complex futuristic society, a world in which one's official identity is all important, in search of her own true identity

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.

The Shapes of their Hearts

A computer tape of the brain of a religious prophet has been allowed to merge with an artificial intelligence on the planet Idun, and Anton Tso must find a way to eliminate the cyber terrorist without killing God. 15,000 first printing.

The Shapes of Their Hearts

The tale of a complex society details the life of young Ista Kelly, a foundling and the only survivor of a pirate raid on an asteroid mine, in a future in which one cannot live without an official identity. Reprint.

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

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

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Dreamships

Burning Bright

Trouble and Her Friends

Shadow Man

Point of Hopes

Night Sky Mine

Dreaming Metal

The Shapes of Their Hearts

Night Sky Mine

Shadow Man