Catherine Asaro, Author Tor Books $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-86824-6
The follow-up to The Last Hawk, which was a Nebula nominee, picks up with Kelric, a cybernetically enhanced Jagernaut warrior and member of the Skolian Empire's ruling family, on his way home after 18 years on the Restricted world of matriarchal...
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Catherine Asaro. Baen, $16 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-4814-8258-5
In this riveting sequel to Undercity, series heroine Bhaajan, the retired major of the Pharaoh’s Army within the interstellar Skolian Empire, returns in her capacity as an investigator for the noble House of Majda. As the Majda’s only real link to...
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Catherine Asaro. . Baen, $15 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-4767-3692-1
This expansion of Asaro’s 2011 novella, City of Cries, is the first book in a new series set in her well-established Skolian Empire universe. With the backdrop of galactic empires under threat, this detective story explores ideas and concepts that...
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Catherine Asaro, Author Tor Books $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-312-89062-9
The sixth volume in the Saga of the Skolian Empire (Primary Inversion; The Radiant Seas; etc.) is a freestanding page-turner as a romance, with a hard science framework. It begins in an idyllic forest bathing pool on the backwater world of Balumil....
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Catherine Asaro, Author Tor Books $26.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-312-86714-0
The fourth volume of Asaro's saga of the interstellar Skolian Empire takes place in the 23rd century, when the rivalry between the Skolians and the Eubians is rising to a murderous climax. At the same time, the heirs to the two empires, Sauscony...
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Catherine Asaro, Author Tor Books $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-312-86044-8
In her third novel set in the embattled Skolian Empire, Asaro (Catch the Lightning) has settled into a smoothly absorbing space-opera formula that mixes high-tech gimmickry with galactic politics and plenty of romance. Kelric, heir to the Imperial...
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Catherine Asaro, Author Tor Books $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-86043-1
Alhough Asaro returns in her second novel to the far-future Skolian Empire of her first, Primary Inversion, she begins the story in 1987, on an alternate Earth. In Los Angeles, narrator Tina, 17, rescues Althor, a Skolian Jagernaut (elite space-pilot
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Catherine Asaro, Author Tor Books $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85764-6
Set in the distant future, Asaro's debut novel pits Sauscony Valdoria (Soz) and her crew of Jagernauts-bioengineered fighting empaths-against the Trader Empire. Traders are a race that derive pleasure from the amplified pain and anguish of empaths-es
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Catherine Asaro, Author Luna Books $13.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-373-80203-6
In Nebula Award-winner Catherine Asaro's romantic fantasy The Charmed Sphere, set in the land of Arondale, four fallible mages-outgoing young Chime, adviser to the dying King Daron; introspective Iris; Chime's fiance Lord Muller, heir to the ...
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Catherine Asaro, Author . Tor $27.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-312-89063-6
This fast-paced entry in the Saga of the Skolian Empire (The Quantum Rose; Ascendant Sun; etc.) provides a backstory with plenty of battles and political machinations that will no doubt delight fans of the series, but may leave others scratching...
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Catherine Asaro, Author Spectra Books $5.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-553-58151-5
The latest from veteran science fiction writer Asaro (Primary Inversion) is an uneasy blend of cyber-intrigue, exotic lore and romantic clich . In the summer of 2010, Web-surfing ballerina Lucia del Mar meets Rashid al-Jazari, the sexy inventor of a
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Catherine Asaro, Author . Luna $14.95 (571p) ISBN 978-0-373-80268-5
Nebula-winner Asaro gives her tried-and-true romance formula another run in the passionate fifth installment of the Lost Continent series (after 2007's The Fire Opal
). Beautiful young novice mage Allegra, abducted from her homeland by violent...
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Catherine Asaro, Author . Luna $14.95 (313p) ISBN 978-0-373-80277-7
Nebula-winner Asaro offers a tasty mix of love, action and intrigue in this romantic fantasy set in the same world as The Misted Cliffs (2005). Ginger-Sun, an innocent young priestess in the Dragon-Sun temple outside the village of Sky Flames, finds
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Catherine Asaro, Author . Baen $25 (270p) ISBN 978-1-4165-2081-8
The evil genius Charon is dead, but Alpha, the gorgeous, superintelligent android he built, remains an unpredictable threat in Asaro's entertaining mix of hard SF and romance, the sequel to Sunrise Alley
(2004). As director of the Office of...
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Catherine Asaro, Author . Tor $25.95 (348p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1353-9
Given the complex world within Asaro's Skolian Empire saga, perhaps it's forgivable that the first third of her second Triad fantasy (after 2004's Schism
) explains at tedious length the history of the Ruby Dynasty, a ruling tribe of...
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Catherine Asaro, Author . Tor $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0951-8
Tensions escalate between the Skolians and their enemies, the Aristo Traders, in Nebula-winner Asaro's dizzying yet accessible SF soap opera, the 10th installment in her Skolian Empire saga and the first in a sequence exploring the childhoods of
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Catherine Asaro, Author . Tor $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0638-8
Intrigue, drama and romance converge in Nebula winner Asaro's latest Skolian Empire adventure (after 2003's The Moon's Shadow), an enthralling stand-alone that fills in the early history of the empire. Married and a widow twice over,...
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Catherine Asaro, Author . Tor $25.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0425-4
This mesmerizing, passionate novel—the eighth in Nebula Award–winner Asaro's (The Quantum Rose) series about the Skolian interstellar empire—focuses mainly on Skolia's rival, Eube, whose rulers are addicted to the...
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Catherine Asaro. Baen, $16 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-982191-96-2
Asaro brings a strong sense of humanity to characters who are used to being viewed as less-than in her hard-boiled fourth Major Bhaajan cyber-thriller (after The Vanished Seas). Former Imperial Space Command officer Maj. Bhaajan, now working as a...
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