Book description
Governed by two political rulers, the planet Burning Bright is the
location of the biggest virtual reality game in the universe. Quinn Lioe
is tangled in a web of love and suspense when she becomes determined to
play at the center of the virtual reality world and gets stuck in the
war between the two empires. This science fiction adventure is one of
Scott's best and the complex futuristic world is unforgettable.
Melissa Scott is from Little Rock, Arkansas, and studied history at
Harvard College and Brandeis University, where she earned her PhD. in
the comparative history program with a dissertation titled "The
Victory of the Ancients: Tactics, Technology, and the Use of Classical
Precedent." In 1986, she won the John W. Campbell Award for Best
New Writer, and won Lambda Literary Awards in 1995 and 1996 for Shadow
Man and Trouble and Her Friends, having previously been a three-time
finalist (for Mighty Good Road, Dreamships, and Burning Bright). Trouble
and Her Friends was also shortlisted for the Tiptree Award. Her most
recent novel, The Jazz, was published by Tor Books in the summer of
2000, and Point of Dreams, a collaboration with long-time co-author Lisa
A. Barnett, came out in the fall of that year. Her first work of
non-fiction, Conceiving the Heavens: Creating the Science Fiction Novel,
was published by Heinemann in 1997. She lives in New Hampshire with her
partner of twenty years.
