Dreamships — (1992-1997) Publisher: 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.

Points — (1995-2014) With Lisa Barnett. Publisher: Nicholas Rathe is a pointsman, a watchman in the great city of Astreiant, the capital of the Kingdom of Chenedolle. It is the time of the annual trade fair, and the city is filled with travelers, and someone is stealing children. The populace is getting angry and frightened and is looking for someone to blame, especially some foreigner. Nicholas, in the midst of all this, must find the children and save the city.

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The Game Beyond — (1984) Publisher: A star-flung empire the prize — in a deadly war of succession.

A Choice of Destinies — (1986) Publisher: What might have happened had Alexander not marched into India, but turned back west? This is the question posed in Ms. Scott’s alternate history. Yet another revolt in Greece (even more serious than the historical revolt of King Agis of Sparta) forces Alexander to turn around and march back home. Having been thwarted then in his bid for India, he turns his interest west instead, to Rome and Carthage.

The Kindly Ones — (1987) Publisher: Orestes was a cruel world, cold and inhospitable. Its first colonists were castaways from a crash landing, clinging to survival through the institution of strict socio-political controls.Over the generations life grew somewhat easier, but the code of honour remained. Misdeeds — and errors — were paid for with blood. At one time all miscreants were executed. Now a social death is imposed. Every Oresteian city has a colony of “ghosts”: ostracised citizens who must survive, somehow, without help from the living. But galactic civilisation is spreading — and Orestes is in its path. The old ways are under scrutiny. And though the Oresteian aristocracy will fight for the status quo, they have not reckoned on the power of a thousand ghosts.

The Armor of Light — (1988) With Lisa Barnett. Publisher: In a slightly different England, in a slightly different summer of 1593, the Queen of England’s annual horoscope reveals a terrible danger lurking over her northern borders. The King of Scots is threatened by a mysterious wizard, and only the Queen’s champion, Sir Philip Sidney, can hope to avert disaster. Accompanied by the poet and sometime playwright Chrisopher Marlowe — who may or may not be a trustworthy ally — Sidney must find a way to protect King James whether the King wants it or not.

Mighty Good Road — (1990) Publisher: IF AT FIRST YOU DON’T SUCCEED- HIRE IT DONE! What does a big corporation do when a job is too dirty and dangerous for its own employees? Why hire a freelancer, of course. That’s how salvage operators Gwynne Heikki and her sidekick Sten Djuro find themselves commissioned to make their way to the surface of an undeveloped planet where they are to find and return a lost cargo. Dangerous, maybe, and dirty certainly, but the job seemed simple enough–with just enough complication to make it “interesting”: the fact that the cargo locators had failed in the crash; that the place swarmed with dangerous animals; that the worst of those animals was of almost human intelligence and more than human ferocity… But there were a few problems that the company didn’t tell them about… It was almost as if their employers wanted them to fail–and to die in the process.

Burning Bright — (1993) Publisher: When space pilot Quinn Lioe gets shore leave on the planet of Burning Bright, she finds herself drawn into the world’s mixture of hi-tech games and fascinating political intrigue.

Trouble and Her Friends — (1994) Publisher: India Carless, alias Trouble, managed to stay one step ahead of the feds until she retired from life as a hacker and settled down to run a small network for an artist’s co-op. Now someone has stolen her pseudonym and begun to use it for criminal hacking. So Trouble returns. Once the fastest gun on the electronic frontier, she has been called out of retirement for one last fight. And it’s a killer. Less than a hundred years from now, the forces of law and order crack down on the world of the internet. It is the closing of the frontier. The hip, noir adventurers who got by on wit, bravado, and drugs, who haunt the virtual worlds of the shadows of cyberspace are up against the edges of civilization. It’s time to adapt or die.

Shadow Man — (1995) Publisher: 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.

Night Sky Mine — (1996) Publisher: 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.

The Shapes of Their Hearts — (1998) Publisher: On the planet Idun, a computer tape of the uploaded mind of a prophet has been allowed to merge with an AI. The result is both a religious icon, a godlike being venerated by the faithful, and a powerful terrorist — with its computer avatars wreaking havoc off-planet. This is a god of whom many copies exist. Anton Tso is the human who must come up with a way to stop the terrorism without killing God.

The Jazz — (2000) Publisher: Tin Lizzy, a young woman techie with a criminal past, and Keyz, a teenage boy who used his parents access codes to borrow a Hollywood studios editing program, are on the run across the altered landscape of 21st century America from the studio police, and a megalomaniac CEO. The jazz is the new artform of the Internet in the new century.

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The Order of the Air  — (2012-2015) Melissa Scott & Jo Graham. Publisher: In 1929 archeologists began draining Lake Nemi in search of the mysterious ships that have been glimpsed beneath its waters since the reign of Claudius. What they awakened had been drowned for two thousand years. For a very good reason. Veteran aviator Lewis Segura has been drifting since the Great War ended, fetched up at last at the small company run by fellow veterans and pilots Alma Gilchrist and Mitchell Sorley, assisted by their old friend Dr. Jerry Ballard, an archeologist who lost his career when he lost part of his leg. It’s a living, and if it’s not quite what any of them had dreamed of, it’s better than much that they’ve already survived. But Lewis has always dreamed true, and what he sees in his dreams will take them on a dangerous chase from Hollywood to New York to an airship over the Atlantic, and finally to the Groves of Diana Herself….