She completed doctoral studies in 1977 at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee,[2] with a dissertation titled "The Cybernetic Imagination in Science Fiction".

[7] "If fiction is to survive, it has no choice but to write about science and technology," she said in a 1986 interview.

"And fiction will survive because inventing stories is a vital part of being human.

[5] In addition to her scholarship, Warrick wrote a self-published historical novel, Charles Babbage and the Countess (2007).

Scott married her first husband, physician Bruce A. McArt, in 1946;[1] they had three children, and divorced.