Catherine Asaro
Catherine
Asaro was born in Oakland,
California and grew up in El
Cerrito,
just north of Berkeley. She received her PhD in Chemical Physics and MA
in
Physics, both from Harvard, and a BS with Highest Honors in Chemistry
from
UCLA. Among the places she has done research are the University of
Toronto,
Ontario, the Max Planck Institut für Astrophysik in Germany, and
the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Her research involves
using quantum
theory to describe the behavior of atoms and molecules. In addition to
her
novels,she has published scientific papers in journals such as
Physical Review
Letters and the Journal of Chemical Physics. Catherine was a
physics professor
until1990, when she established Molecudyne Research, which she
currently
runs.
A former ballerina, she has
performed with ballets and in musicals
onboth
coasts and in Ohio, and founded the Mainly Jazz Dance program at
Harvard,which
became an undergraduate organization after she graduated. She now
teaches at
the Caryl Maxwell Classical Ballet Maryland. Her husband is John
Kendall Cannizzo,
an astrophysicistat NASA. They have one daughter.
The Skolian Empire
Reviews
Primary
Inversion
A
rivalry between the Skolian and Trader empires escalates into all-out
war that threatens to bring every Skolian citizen into slavery or
result in the destruction of both sides.
Catch
the Lightning
A
tale of politics, love, and war, the story of a young girl from Earth
taken into the future and made the focus of a murderous plot to bring
down the empire.
The Last
Hawk
Kelwin,
heir to the throne of the Skolian empire, crashlands his
disabled space craft onto a world ruled by women. They detain him, to
prevent their world being absorbed by the empire. He will escape
eventually, but the consequences of Kelwin's stay will have altered the
galactic empire forever.
The
Radiant Seas
The Radiant Seas continues the story of Sauscony
and Jaibriol, each the heir to an interstellar empire, as their lives
become entangled again in the machinations of the Skolian Empire. They
are beginning to pick up what's left of their lives, in exile on a
deserted planet with their children, when the fate of much of the known
universe comes to rest on the shoulders of their fragile young family.
Interstellar war erupts, and Jaibriol is snatched away to be the
unwilling ruler of the Highton Aristos. Sauscony must fight her way at
the head of an invading space fleet to rescue him from his own empire -
without revealing that they are married. And with much of interstellar
civilization poised on the brink of destruction, it is the devotion of
these two lovers, their sacrifices and their heroism, that might just
found a new order. That, and the existence of their teenage son, who is
the genetic heir to a legacy of pain he must rise above.
The
Quantum Rose
The Quantum Rose is the story of Kamoj Argali, the
young ruler of an
impoverished province on a backward planet. To keep her people from
starving, she has agreed to marry Jax Ironbridge, ruler of the
prosperous neighboring province. But before they can wed, Kamoj is
forced into marriage with a mysteriousstranger from a distant planet,
throwing her world into utter chaos.
Ascendant Sun
Kelric
returns to Skolian space, only to find the Empire in control of
the Allied forces of Earth. With little more than the clothes on his
back, he is forced to take work on a merchant vessel, and ends up being
sold into slavery.
Spherical Harmonic
Separated for decades by circumstance and
political machinations, the Ruby Dynasty, hereditary rulers of Skolia,
struggle to bring together the tattered remnants of their family in the
shadow of a disastrous interstellar war. Too many have died, others are
presumed lost, yet Dyhianna, the Ruby Pharoah, must move quickly if
they are to reassume their rightful place as rulers of the Skokian
empire.
Moon's Shadow
At the age of seventeen the young nobleman named
Jaibriol Qox becomes ruler of a vast galactic empire - and loses
everything he has ever valued.Born of a clandestine liaison between a
renegade daughter of the Skolian Imperialate and a scion of the
genetically engineered Eubian Traders, Jai Qox grew up in exile,
unaware of the powers that coursed through his noble blood. In the
waning days of the bloody Radiance War that ravaged the galaxy, Jai was
captured and returned to the Traders to play a role as a puppet Emperor
in their scheme to consolidate their domination of space.Now Jai must
walk a razor's edge, to seize the power that is his by birthright
without succumbing to its dark seduction and wield it for the good of
all, and to avert a conflagration that threatens to engulf a thousand
worlds.
Skyfall
Skyfall goes back to the beginning, to the
rebirth of Skolia, showing how a chance meeting on a backwater planet
forged a vast interstellar empire. Eldrinson, a provincial ruler on a
primitive planet, is plagued by inner demons. But when he meets Roca, a
beautiful and mysterious woman from the stars, he whisks her away to
his mountain retreat, inadvertently starting a great interstellar war,
and birthing the next generation of rulers for the Skolian Empire.
The
Ruby Dice
Two
men, two empires. Jaibriol ruled the Eubian Concord: over two
trillion people across more than a thousand worlds and habitats. Kelric
ruled the Skolian Imperialate. War had come before-ten years ago,
Jaibriol had lost his parents in the final battle of the Radiance War
between the Concord and the Imperialate-and it might come again,
devastating vast swathes of the galaxy. Neither Jaibriol nor Kelric
wanted war, but neither was complete master of his realm. And each hid
a secret that, if revealed, might be his downfall. Jaibriol was a
secret psion, with telepathic abilities, and to be a psion in the
Eubian Concord was to be a contemptible slave, eventually to be
tortured for the pleasure of the slave's owner. Kelric, years ago, had
disappeared for nearly two decades. He had been a prisoner and slave on
the planet Coban, part of neither empire, until he had managed to
escape. And if the Skolian Imperialate knew of his captivity, there
would be demands for vengeance, ravaging Coban-and killing the wife and
children Kelric had left behind when he escaped. Neither man knew how
much longer he could keep his secret-nor how much longer they could
hold back the threat of a war that could incinerate hundreds of
inhabited worlds.
Triad
Schism
Louis
Royo |
The Final Key
Luis Royo
|
|
Schism
Twenty-three
years have passed since the fateful vote in the Skolian
Assembly that Roca missed in Skyfall. It created the first open
hostility between Eube and Skolia, which has only deepened over the
ensuing years.
Now,
Eube senses an opportunity, for strife has
riven the first family of the Skolian Empire. Sauscony, the daughter of
Roca and Eldrinson, is ready to seek her fortune as an
officer-in-training in the Skolian military. When her father forbids
her to undertake such a dangerous path, a wedge is formed as Soz
chooses duty over family. Eube hopes to make this permanent, a divide
that will leave the Skolian Empire ripe for conquest. And they're
willing to kill anyone to make it happen.
The Final
Key
The
Skolian Empire comes under all-out assault from its nemesis, the
Euban Concord, who have undermined the Empire via subterfuge and
assassination, leaving it ripe for conquest. The Skolian Empire's only
hope? A young woman barely out of her teens who hasn't even complete
her training as a cadet.
Aronsdale/The
Lost Continent
Charmed
Destinies: w/Mercedes Lackey & Rachel Lee
Stephanie Pui-Mun Law |
Charmed
Sphere
Stephanie
Pui-Mun Law |
The Misted Cliffs
Stephanie
Pui-Mun Law
|
The Dawn Star
Stephanie
Pui-Mun Law
|
The Fire Opal
Stephanie
Pui-Mun Law
|
The Night Bird
(July 2008)
|
Charmed
Destinies
Three new stories of timeless love and tantalizing
fantasy by Catherine Asaro, Mercedes Lackey, and Rachel Lee.
Catherine's story, Moonglow is a brief window of the
events in The
Charmed Sphere, told from the perspective of Iris, rather than Chime.
In a world where kings married for magic, Iris
Larkspur was required to
wed the prince - despite the spell that kept him deaf, mute and blind.
Healing her bridegroom would take a power greater than any she'd ever
known - one only two bonded hearts could provide!
Charmed
Sphere
What was the use of being a powerful mage
if you couldn't learn the spells?
Once Chime had been the most promising
mage in the land, feted and
celebrated for her potential and future role in the kingdom. The Iris,
he young competitor, made a stunning leap in skill and turned Chime's
world upside down.
Now no longer the most powerful, no
longer promised to a prince — and
still unable to harness her magic properly — Chime was set adrift. As
was the new king's cousin — and former heir — Lord Muller. Yet when the
neighboring kingdom threatened war, Muller and Chime were tasked with
uncovering the plot. Both were flawed, yet unwilling to accept a lesser
destiny than they had once known. Could this quest be the opportunity
for redemption — or would it lead them to their deaths?
The
Misted Cliffs
One
generation after war had nearly destroyed three nations, evil was
returning. The promise of peace rested on Mel Dawnfield's noble vow: to
marry Cobalt the Dark - heir to a family of legendary cruelty. With
only her uncontrolled spells to guide her, isolated in Cobalt's home in
the Misted Cliffs, knowing poisoned blood ran through her husband's
veins, Mel struggled to embrace her unexplored mage powers and unveil
the light in her shadowy new world - including the radiance hidden in
her husband's soul. For her enemies were gathering strength, and they
would soon unleash the darkest of evils in the name of war.
The
Dawn Star
High
in the Misted Cliffs lives a magic unlike any other.
With
no teacher to guide her, no mentor to discourage her from the
impossible, Mel Dawnfield pushed her magic to its limits -- and
surpassed them. Only to find that her powers aren't enough to halt
burgeoning rebellion within her husband's fledgling realm -- or a plot
devised to strike at the very heart of Mel's family.
Mel's
mage strength has become greater than any power ever known, but
dare she forge her spells into weapons to protect her people, her
husband? For her magic might transform the brutality of war into the
birth pangs of a peaceful empire . . . unless it proves the death blow
to her world.
The
Fire Opal
Deep
in the sun-drenched desert, priestess Ginger-Sun carries the power
of shape mages. And whispers abound: Is she descended from the beloved
Sunset Goddess, or are her nighttime rituals filled with wickedness?
Ginger herself is uncertain, until a stranger is left for dead at her
feet.
Thence
her magic begins to burn.
Fate
makes Ginger the stranger's wife and therefore a target
for those who would murder this man to crown another—and force her
magic into twisted ferocity. For unless Ginger masters her dark powers,
violence will rein in Taka Mal—and in her soul.
The
Night Bird
Sunrise
Alley
Sunrise Alley
Alan Pollack
|
Alpha
Alan Pollack
|
Sunrise
Alley
When
the half-drowned stranger washed up on the beach near research
scientist Samantha Bryton's home, she was unaware that he was something
more than human: an experiment conducted by Charon, a practitioner of
illegal robotics and android research. The man said his name was Turner
Pascal - but Pascal was dead, killed in a car wreck. Samantha and
Turner quickly found themselves on the run, pursued by the most
ruthless criminal of the twenty - first century. In desperation,
Samantha sought help from Sunrise Alley, an underground organization of
Als and androids gone rogue. But those cybernetic outlaws had their own
hidden agenda, and Samantha feared that her only hope would prove a
forlorn one....
Alpha
Charon
was the most ruthless-and brilliant-criminal of the twenty-first
century, a practitioner of illegal robotics and android research. He is
dead now, and General Thomas Wharington believes his team of experts
has deleted all the electronic copies the megalomaniacal inventor
created of himself.
However,
one major problem remains: Alpha, the only android survivor of
Charon's cybernetic empire. Outwardly indistinguishable from a human
woman, Alpha has superhuman strength and speed, and perhaps even more
deadly capabilities still unknown. Thomas's superiors want her
dismantled and studied, but to Thomas it feels like murder. He stalls
for time, a move that could prove disastrous. Alpha escapes from an
escape-proof compound, kidnaps Thomas, and takes him to one of Charon's
hidden installations. Charon might be dead, but Alpha continues to
carry out her late master's orders, and she refuses to elaborate on
what those orders entail. Her behavior is becoming more human-or so it
seems. Is she developing emotions and a conscience, or is she just
learning to counterfeit them as a means of carrying out her enigmatic
orders? And do those orders include Thomas's death sentence?
Novels
The
Veiled Web
Cliff Nielsen
|
The
Pheonix Code
Alan Ayers |
The Veiled Web
The Pheonix Code
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