![]() ![]() ![]() Her father, Isaac Alexander “Ike” Scott, graduated from Little Rock (later Central) High School, got a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and a law degree from the University of Arkansas (UA) in Fayetteville (Washington County), and spent a long career at the large corporate law firm headed by Edward L. Melissa Elaine Scott was born on August 7, 1960, in Little Rock (Pulaski County). The genre of science fiction furnished young Scott a literary medium-the far-away future of cyberspace and interstellar travel-in which LGBTQ+ identities were not met with condemnation. In the 1980s, even among book lovers, there was little knowledge or acceptance of the biological and social diversity of human life in the area of gender and sexuality. Her fiction has been noted for the frequency of lesbian and gay characters, who were often the protagonists. ![]() Over nearly forty years, she has published eighteen original novels, several short stories, and numerous tie-in novels for the science-fiction network-television series Star Trek and Stargate: Atlantis. A scholar who followed her father, a prominent lawyer, from Little Rock Central High School to the academic citadels of the east, Melissa Scott turned to writing fiction in the 1980s and became one of the most honored and prolific authors of English-language science fiction. ![]()
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