Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott

While they had the potential to be fully fleshed out, not much time was spent on them, and in in few spots, it would have helped the story along if there was a back story. The secondary characters were just that, secondary.

The first chapter, led me to think that it will be a typical leader/follower relationship, but I was pleasantly surprised when both characters tended to take a leadership role, and each had weaknesses and strengths. I really enjoyed the characters of Trouble and Cerise - its not often you find an author who can write about a partnership that is truly equal. Read moreįirst off, the book is about hackers written in 1994, so its a bit dated, on the other hand, it is a well written story. Her next solo novel, The Master of Samar, will be out in 2023. Her most recent solo novel, Water Horse, was published in June 2021. Her latest short story, “Sirens,” appeared in the collection Retellings of the Inland Seas, and her text-based game for Choice of Games, A Player’s Heart, came out in 2020. She was also shortlisted for the Otherwise (Tiptree) Award.

She also won Spectrum Awards for Shadow Man, Fairs’ Point, Death By Silver, and for the short story “The Rocky Side of the Sky” (Periphery, Lethe Press) as well as the John W.

Barnett), and Death By Silver, with Amy Griswold. She won Lambda Literary Awards for Trouble and Her Friends, Shadow Man, Point of Dreams (written with her late partner, Lisa A. She is the author of more than thirty original science fiction and fantasy novels, most with queer themes and characters, as well as authorized tie-ins for Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: Voyager, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Star Wars Rebels. 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. “Scott’s talents for creating a future both hauntingly familiar and exotically remote are showcased in this feminist cyberpunk romp.”-Publishers Weekly Read more 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. Less than a hundred years from now, the forces of law and order crack down on the world of the Internet. Once the fastest gun on the electronic frontier, she has been called out of retirement for one last fight. Now someone has stolen her pseudonym and begun to use it for criminal hacking. 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. One of the quintessential and award-winning novels of the cyberpunk genre returns in a striking new edition.

Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott