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Catherine Asaro

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Catherine Asaro was born in Oakland, California and grew up in El Cerrito, just north of Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. in Chemical Physics and MA in Physics, both from Harvard, and a BS with Highest Honors in Chemistry from UCLA. Sites where she has conducted research include the University of Toronto in Canada, the Max Planck Institut für Astrophysik in Germany, and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Much of her research uses quantum theory to describe the behavior of atoms and molecules. Catherine served full-time as a physics professor until 1990, when she established Molecudyne Research. In recent years, she has begun to turn her attention toward educating the next generation of mathematicians and scientists, teaching homeschooled students who compete with top students throughout the nation.

Catherine Asaro’s fiction is a successful blend of hard science fiction, romance, and exciting space adventure. Her novel, The Quantum Rose, won the Nebula Award for best novel of 2001. She is a three-time winner of the Romantic Times Book Club award for “Best Science Fiction Novel.” She has written over 20 novels, many of which belong to her Saga of the Skolian Empire. In addition, she has published short fiction in Analog magazine and in several anthologies, as well as reviews, nonfiction essays, and scientific papers. Her paper “Complex Speeds and Special Relativity,” which appeared in the April 1996 issue of The American Journal of Physics, forms the basis for some of the science in her novels.

A former ballerina, Catherine Asaro has performed with ballets and in musicals on both coasts and in Ohio. In the 1980’s she was a principal dancer and artistic director of the Mainly Jazz Dancers and the Harvard University Ballet.

Her husband is John Kendall Cannizzo, an astrophysicist (the proverbial “rocket scientist”) at NASA. They have one daughter, a ballet dancer and award-winning mathematician.

Books

Diamond Star
May 5, 2009

Del was a rock singer. He was also the renegade son of the Ruby Dynasty, which made his career choice less than respectable, and gave him more to worry about than getting gigs Read more...

The Night Bird
(The Lost Continent Series)
July 7, 2008

For centuries the women of Aronsdale have lived freely among the green and misted valleys. Creatures of exotic beauty and sensuality, they possess powerful skills of enchantment...and young Allegro is no different. But Read more...

Alpha
(sequel to Sunrise Alley)
September 5, 2006

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 Read more...

Irresistible Forces
January 3, 2006

Hearts collide and passions consume—in worlds far away from our own...

Six of today's most popular authors join talents in this unique anthology that shows that love can conquer all—even the boundaries of time Read more...

The Final Key
(Part Two of Triad - Saga of the Skolian Empire: Book 11)
November 29, 2005

The Final Key is the second half of the story arc known as Triad, which began in Schism. Schism ended with the Skolian Empire torn asunder by personal conflict within Read more...

The Misted Cliffs
July 1, 2005

The Journey Home
January 1, 2005

Soldier, Warrior, Rebel . . . The award-winning, best-selling authors of The Journey Home have conjured an inspired collection of short stories about the most compelling figure in romantic fiction: Read more...

Schism
(Part One of Triad - Skolian Empire - Book 10:)
December 1, 2004

Schism harkens back to the early years of the Skolian Empire, back to the beginning of the war between Skolia and the Euban Traders. Twenty-three years have passed since the Read more...

Skyfall
(Skolian Empire - Book 9)
October 1, 2004

Sunrise Alley
August 1, 2004

SHE WAS RUNNING FROM A RUTHLESS CRIMINAL ACCOMPANIED BY SOMEONE MORE THAN HUMAN . . .

When the shipwrecked stranger washed up, nearly drowned, on the beach near research scientist Samantha Bryton's Read more...

The Moon's Shadow
(Skolian Empire - Book 8)
March 2, 2004

At the age of seventeen the young nobleman named Jaibriol Qox became ruler of a vast galactic
empire - and lost everything he had ever valued.

Born of a clandestine liaison Read more...

Irresistible Forces
February 3, 2004

Six of today's most popular authors join talents in this unique anthology that shows that love can conquer all�even the boundaries of time and space. With stories that feature Read more...

The Charmed Sphere
February 1, 2004

Charmed Destinies
November 1, 2003

Skyfall
(Skolian Empire - Book 9)
October 1, 2003

The Moon's Shadow
(Skolian Empire - Book 8)
March 1, 2003

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 Read more...

Spherical Harmonic
(Skolian Empire - Book 7)
August 1, 2002

Separated for decades by circumstance and political machinations, the Ruby Dynasty, hereditary rulers of the Skolian Empire, struggle to bring together the tattered remnants of their family in the shadow Read more...