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Catherine Asaro (natural 1955) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. She is better known for her books just about a Ruby Dynasty set in the Skolian Empire. Her novel The Quantum Rose was the winner of the 2001 Nebula Award for Best Novel.

She was natural inside Oakland, California. She has the B.S. in chemistry from UCLA and an M.A. in physics and a Ph.D. in chemical physics from Harvard University. When at Harvard, she likewise founded the student ballet organization; she still teaches ballet within Maryland. Inside 1990, she established a science-fiction magazine Molecudyne The food and drug administration.

She is married to John Kendall Cannizzo, an astrophysicist at NASA. It own the single girl, a ballet dancer & mathematician.

Published Works

Saga of the Skolian Empire

  • Primary Inversion (1995)
  • Catch a Lightning (1996)
  • A Endure Hawk (1997)
  • A Beamy Seas (1998)
  • Ascendant Sun (2000)
  • A Quantum Rose (2000)
  • Globular Harmonic (2001)
  • *"Aurora in Four Voices" (short story appearing within Analog) (2002)
  • ''A Moon's Shadow (2003)
  • Skyfall (2003)
  • *"Stained Glass Heart" (short story appearing in the Irresistible Forces collection) (2004)
  • *"Walk in Silence" (short story appearing around Analog) (2004)
  • Schism (2004)

    Other works
    A Veiled Web (1999) A Phoenix Code (2000) A Charmed Sphere (2004) Sunrise Alley (2004) Misted Drop-off (2005)

    Collections, including stories from other authors
    Charmed Destinies (2003) Resistless Forces'' (2004)

    • The Moon's Shadow
    Review of The Moon's Shadow (book 8 of the Skolian Empire series) by Catherine Asaro.




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