But when pirates attack the claim, Cassilde receives the rarest of the Ancestors’ Gifts: a change to her biochemistry that confers near-instant healing and seems to promise immortality.īut the change also drags her into an underworld where Gifts are traded in blood, and powerful Gifts bring equally powerful enemies. When their lover and former colleague Summerlad Ashe reappears, offering them a chance to salvage part of an orbiting palace that he claims contains potentially immense riches, Cassilde is desperate enough to take the gamble, even though Ashe had left them both to fight on the opposite side of the interplanetary war that only ended seven years ago. She needs one last find big enough to leave a legacy for her partner and fellow salvor Dai Winter.
Cassilde is also steadily fading under the onslaught of Lightman’s, an incurable, inevitably fatal disease.
Would you be able to tell us a bit about it?Ĭassilde Sam is a barely solvent salvage operator, hunting for relics in the ruins left by the mysterious Ancestors-particularly the color-coded Elements that power most of humanity’s current technology, including the ability to navigate through hyperspace. Your latest novel Finders is out now with Candlemark & Gleam. Melissa Scott was kind enough to speak with the Fantasy Hive via email about her writing and her career. Her latest novel Finders, the first novel in the Firstborn, Lastborn series, is a wonderful character-driven yet epic space opera, and came out with Candlemark & Gleam at the end of last year. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1986, and her classic cyberpunk novel Trouble And Her Friends (1994) won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay & Lesbian Science Fiction and Fantasy, as did her space opera Shadow Man (1996). She has been writing speculative fiction about LGBT characters since the 1980s. Melissa Scott is an award-winning author whose work spans epic Fantasy, cyberpunk, space opera and steampunk.
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