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Catherine Asaro
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Catherine Asaro is a Nebula Award® winner for her novel The Quantum Rose, part of her popular Skolian Empire series, and the novella “The Spacetime Pool.” Her novels have three times been named the best science fiction novel of the year by Romantic Times Book Club. She has won numerous other awards, including the Analog Readers Poll award, the Homer, and the Sapphire award. She has an M.A. in physics, and a Ph.D. in chemical physics, both from Harvard, and has done research at the University of Toronto, The Max Planck Institute, and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. A former ballet and jazz dancer, she founded the Mainly Jazz Dance program at Harvard and danced on both the west and east coasts. Her previous books for Baen were Sunrise Alley, its sequel, Alpha, and two novels in her Skolian Empire series, The Ruby Dice and Diamond Star. For Diamond Star, she also cut a CD of the same name with the rock band Point Valid, which offers a soundtrack to the book. She continues to compose and perform, and appears in concert at science fiction cons. Catherine has written fourteen novels in the popular Skolian Saga—Carnelians being the latest—several fantasies, including The Charmed Sphere, and the near-future thrillers The Veiled Web and The Phoenix Code.
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Catherine Asaro with Point Valid (from right to left: Max Vidaver, guitar; Catherine Asaro; Hayim, lead vocals and lead guitar; Adam Leve, drums) |
www.catherineasaro.net |
TITLES
 
AWARDS:
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Sapphire Award, Best
SF Romance, CATCH THE LIGHTNING
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The UTC Reader's Choice
Award for 1997, Speculative Fiction, CATCH THE LIGHTNING
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HOMer Award, Best Science
Fiction Novel, THE VEILED WEB
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HOMer Award, Best Science
Fiction Novella, "Aurora in Four Voices"
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Sapphire Award, Best
SF Romance, "Aurora in Four Voices"
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The AnLab Award
(Analog Reader's Poll), "Aurora in Four Voices"
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PRISM Award, THE VEILED
WEB
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National Reader's Choice
Award, THE VEILED WEB
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Analog's AnLab Award,
Best Novella, "A Roll ofthe Dice"
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HOMer Award, Best Science
Fiction Novella, "A Roll of the Dice"
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Nebula Award, Best Novel
of 2001, THE QUANTUM ROSE
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2003 Romantic Times Book
Club Reviewers Choice Award, Best Science Fiction Novel,
SKYFALL
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2002 Affair de Coeur
Reader/Writer Poll Winner, Best Futuristic,SPHERICAL HARMONIC
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2001 Affaire de Coeur
Award, Best Science Fiction, THE QUANTUM ROSE
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