Catherine Asaro (born 1955) is an American science fiction author. She is best known for her books about the Ruby Dynasty set in the Skolian Empire .
She was born in Oakland, California. She has a B.S. in chemistry from UCLA and an M.A. in physics and a Ph.D. in chemical physics from Harvard University. While at Harvard, she also founded a student ballet organization; she still teaches ballet in Maryland. In 1990, she established the science-fiction magazine Molecudyne Research.
She is married to John Kendall Cannizzo , an astrophysicist at NASA. They have one daughter, a ballet dancer and mathematician.
Published Works
Saga of the Skolian Empire
- Primary Inversion (1995)
- Catch the Lightning (1996)
- The Last Hawk (1997)
- The Radiant Seas (1998)
- Ascendant Sun (2000)
- The Quantum Rose (2000, winner of the 2001 Nebula Award)
- Spherical Harmonic (2001)
- The Moon's Shadow (2003)
- Skyfall (2003)
- Schism (2004)
Other works
- The Veiled Web (1999)
- The Phoenix Code (2000)
- Charmed Destinies (2003)
- Irresistible Forces (2004)
- Charmed Sphere (2004)
- Sunrise Alley (2004)
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