Melissa Scott

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 adapt or die. India Carless, alias Trouble, got out ahead of the feds and settled down to run a small network for an artist's co-op. Now someone has taken her name and begun to use it for criminal hacking. So Trouble returns. Once the fastest gun on the electronic frontier, she had tried to retire-but has been called out for one last fight. And it's a killer.

Trouble and Her Friends

Space pilot Silence Leigh's dreams of her own ship and of escape from the Hegemony's oppressions take on new direction and focus when she joins the crew of "The Sun-Treader"

Five-twelfths of Heaven

Lisa A. Barnett

A guard in the great city of Astreiant, Nicholas Rathe must calm an angry and frightened population as he searches the overcrowded streets of the city for a kidnapper and the children he has abducted, before it is too late. Reprint.

Point of Hopes

Finders is a mythic space opera by SF legend Melissa Scott. Set in a fully imagined universe with vividly delineated protagonists, the novel is a seamless fusion of adventure, myth, and science so advanced as to have become magic-a bold, original re-imagining of the tales of Prometheus, Pandora, and the Titans.

Finders

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.

Shadow Man

The Kindly Ones

Mercy Mission

Amy Griswold

His practice newly established, metaphysician Ned Mathey can't afford to turn away any clients. But the latest Londoner to seek Ned's magical aid gives him pause: Mr Edgar Nevett, an arrogant banker, is the father of the bully who made Ned's life hell at boarding school. Nevertheless, Ned accepts the commission to ensure the Nevett family silver bears no ancient or modern curses, and then prepares to banish the Nevett family to unpleasant memory again. Until Edgar Nevett is killed by an enchanted silver candlestick-one of the pieces Ned declared magically harmless. Calling on his old school friend Julian Lynes-private detective and another victim of the younger Nevett-Ned races to solve the murder, clear the stain on his professional reputation, and lay to rest the ghosts of his past. Assisted by Ned's able secretary Miss Frost, who has unexpected metaphysical skills of her own, Ned and Julian explore London's criminal underworld and sodomitical demimonde, uncover secrets and scandals, confront the unexpected murderer and the mysteries of their own relationship. In Death by Silver veteran authors Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold introduce a Victorian London where magic works, influencing every aspect of civilized life, and two very appealing detectives.

Death by Silver

Water Horse

In need of vital nutritional supplies, the crew of the U.S.S. Voyager enters into shaky negotiations with the Kirse, who prove as dangerous as the enemy when they are attacked by the hostile Andirrim. Original.

The Garden

The varied occupants of the Deep Space Nine space station must cope with a powerful and very hostile invisible warship, and Commander Sisko joins forces with the Cardassians to stop the mutual menace. Original.

Proud Helios

Jo Graham

Includes a sneak peek at Incursion an O.C.L.T. novel by Aaron Rosenberg.

Lost Things

Benjanun Sriduangkaew

Cat Rambo

Sacchi Green

Steve Berman

Tansy Rayner Roberts

Penny Stirling

Redfern Jon Barrett

Tori Truslow

Kenneth Schneyer

Claire Humphrey

Alex Jeffers

Layla Lawlor

Zoe Blade

Amanda Fitzwater

Meda Kahn

Chant©♭ McCoy

Robert E. Stutts

Lexy Wealleans

Alberto Y©Ł©łez

A book such as this spins not only words but also whole worlds: eighteen of them, representing the best lesbian-themed stories of the fantastic or futuristic published the prior year: An artisan who tests the skills and wares of her friends in the hope of finding the ideal housing for an idealized love. A shape-shifting sidekick ensures that the heroine, who might not even be aware of her, saves the day. The device on a young girl's wrist that counts down the years until she will meet her soul mate poses the ultimate challenge of delayed gratification. A daydreamer wonders how she will face the coming Stone Moon and its gathering when her culture demands fertility yet her heart belongs to her best friend, who is not only female but of a higher caste. The women to be met in these pages will find themselves tested not because of their sexual identity but rather the identity they have composed, constructed, and spun.

The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction

Heiresses of Russ 2014

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 reveals for the first time the beginning of the romance between Adjunct Point Nicolas Rathe and ex-soldier Philip Eslingen. The events of Midsummer have hardly been forgotten by the Fall Balance, and Nicolas Rathe can hardly complain that they;ve done any harm to his reputation, or to the reputation of the Points in general. However, it has meant that he's more in demand as an investigator, and the increased recognition and workload has made it hard to pursue friendship, or anything more, with Philip Eslingen, his comrade in the rescue of the stolen children. Eslingen is still Hanselin Caiazzo's bodyguard and Caiazzo is involved in any number of questionably legal ventures, and it does neither of them any good to be seen too often in each other's company. When a father and son who are both rumored to have been pirates are murdered on the same night, and Rathe finds Eslingen standing over the son's body, Eslingen proves his innocence easily enough, though he refuses to say exactly what errand he's running for Caiazzo at that hour of the morning. But when the old man's grandson and the son's self-proclaimed wife quarrel over the son's meager belongings, and Caiazzo dispatches Eslingen to represent his interests in the investigation, Rathe begins to wonder if their friendship is going to survive. Or whether they'll survive at all.

A Novella of Astreiant

Point of Knives

In this first installment in a six book series set after the end of Stargate Atlantis's final season, Atlantis returns to the Pegasus Galaxy where the Wraith are now under the new and powerful Queen of Death who desperately needs Dr. Rodney McKay--the only one who can lead them to Earth. Original.

Homecoming

A wealthy corporation owner hires a space pilot to track down her insane brother, a man who might have just created the first fully conscious artificial intelligence. Reprint.

Dreamships

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. By the author of Trouble and Her Friends.

Night Sky Mine

Five years after the Manfred riots, the question of machine intelligence is still a dangerous one on Persephone, and the coolie rights organization Realpeace is not prepared to let it go. For conjurer Celinde Fortune and her musician cousin Fanning Jones, the conflict is a distant one — until the murder of a popular musician raises the stakes even for the most determinedly uninvolved. And when Fortune acquires a new Spelvin construct to manage her magic act—one originally owned by an FTL pilot named Reverdy Jian—she is thrust suddenly into the middle of the problem. Because this construct is something different, and that difference can get them all killed.

Dreaming Metal

How does one write science fiction so that it is believable and meaningful? Melissa Scott shares her successful techniques and insights.

Creating the Science Fiction Novel

Conceiving the Heavens

It is the aftermath of battle. Scattered and struggling to regroup, Colonel Sheppard and his team face their darkest days yet in the war against the Wraith Queen, Death.

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