Melissa Scott

In "Firstborn, Lastborn," a scientist and her lover face the past - and the gulf it creates between them. "Firstborn, Lastborn" was included in Year's Best SF 34 for 2017.

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

Told from the point of view of the Wraith, this novella sees the Atlantis team called upon to help find a missing Wraith queen, lost on a plague-ridden world.

As the threat of European war looms, the Kingdom of Ethiopia is one of the first to come under attack from the Fascist powers.

The Silvertree Empress is dead, the last of her line.

The internet is filled with Jazz: intentional misinformation and bewildering disinformation that are both an artform and a business.

Salvage operators Gwynne Heikki and her sidekick Sten Djuro are commissioned to make their way to the surface of an undeveloped planet where they are to find and return a

"Mercy Mission" tells the story of Hera Syndulla's first mission, a risky attempt to smuggle medical supplies back to her homeworld. But the Empire is waiting...