Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott

Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott

The Paragons of Queer Speculative Fiction series keeps alive books vital to gay imagination. 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. Now someone has stolen her pseudonym and begun to use it for criminal hacking. So Trouble returns. Once the fastest gun on the electronic frontier, she has been called out of retirement for one last fight. And it's a killer. Less than a hundred years from now, the forces of law and order crack down on the world of the internet. It is the closing of the frontier. 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. It's time to adapt or die.

Melissa Scott grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas, studied history at Harvard, and wrote her first novel while pursuing her PhD in comparative history at Brandeis. She's written over thirty original books and a few short stories, the most of which feature gay themes and characters, as well as official Star Trek, Stargate, and Star Wars Rebels tie-in novels. She was awarded the John W. In 1986, she won the Campbell Award for Best New Writer, was nominated for the Lambda Literary and Spectrum Awards, was nominated for the Tiptree Award, and many of her short tales were anthologized in Year's Best.