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Catherine Asaro is an American science fiction and fantasy author. She is best known for her books about the Ruby Dynasty, called the Saga of the Skolian Empire.
Catherine Asaro was born in Oakland, California and grew up in El Cerrito, California. She has a PhD in chemical physics and an A.M. in physics, both from Harvard University, and a B.S. with highest honors in chemistry from UCLA. She attended Kennedy High School in Richmond, California as part of the Richmond Voluntary Integration Plan.
When not writing and making appearances at conventions and signings, Asaro teaches math, physics, and chemistry. She has coached various nationally ranked teams with home, private, and public school students, in particular the Howard Area Homeschoolers and the Chesapeake team for national tournaments such as the American Regions Mathematics League (ARML). Her students have placed at the top levels in numerous national competitions, including the United States of America Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO) and the United States of America Mathematical Talent Search (USAMTS).
Asaro is a member of SIGMA, a think tank of speculative writers that advises the government as to future trends affecting national security. She is also known for her advocacy of bringing girls and women into STEM fields and for challenging gender roles and literary expectations in her fiction. She has been an invited speaker or visiting professor for various institutions, including the National Academy of Sciences, Harvard, Georgetown University, NASA, The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), The Global Competitiveness Forum in Saudi Arabia, the New Zealand National ConText Writer's program, the University of Maryland, the US Naval Academy, and many other institutions.
A former ballet and jazz dancer, Catherine Asaro has performed with dance companies and in musicals on both coasts and in Ohio. She founded and served as artistic director and a principal dancer for two dance groups at Harvard: The Mainly Jazz Dance Company and the Harvard University Ballet. After she graduated, her undergraduate students took over Mainly Jazz and made it into a club at the college.
She has completed two terms as president of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) (2003–2005) and during her tenure established the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Her husband is John Kendall Cannizzo, an astrophysicist at NASA. They have one daughter, a ballet dancer who studied maths at the University of Cambridge.
Catherine Asaro is the daughter of Frank Asaro, the nuclear chemist who discovered the iridium anomaly that led the team of Luis Alvarez, Walter Alvarez, Frank Asaro, and Helen Michel to postulate that an asteroid collided with the Earth 66 million years ago and caused mass extinctions, including the demise of the dinosaurs.
Asaro is known as a hard science fiction writer for the scientific depth of her work. The amount of science varies from book to book, with novels such as Primary Inversion, The Radiant Seas, and Spherical Harmonic on the most scientifically dense end of the spectrum, including elements such as equations and diagrams of quantum mechanical wave functions and Klein bottles. Stanley Schmidt, the long time editor of Analog magazine, wrote that Primary Inversion is "an impressive first novel; not just a good story, but the kind of speculation we too seldom see - really new science that just might be possible." Asaro is noted as one of the few female science fiction writers who also has a doctorate in hard science, specifically a Ph.D. from Harvard in theoretical Chemical Physics.
Asaro is also noted for including sophisticated mathematical concepts in her fiction. The method of space travel used in the Skolian Empire books comes from a paper Asaro wrote on complex variables and special relativity that appeared in the American Journal of Physics. The novel Spherical Harmonic involves an imagined universe based on the Hilbert space described by the spherical harmonic eigenfunctions that solve the Laplace Equation, and some prose in the book is written in the shape of the sinusoidal waves found in the spherical harmonics. Her novel The Quantum Rose is an allegory to quantum scattering theory and is dedicated to her doctoral advisors and mentors in the subject, Alex Dalgarno, Kate Kirby, and Eric J. Heller. The novella "Aurora in Four Voices" includes topics ranging from Fourier series to integration problems in calculus. In essays in the back of some of her novels, Asaro explains the mathematical and physics basis of the ideas used in the books, in particular Spherical Harmonic, The Quantum Rose, and The Moon's Shadow. In the anthology Aurora in Four Voices (which includes the novella of the same name), Asaro describes the mathematical basis of several stories in the anthology, including the use of Fourier transforms, Riemann sheets, and complex numbers in "The SpaceTime Pool."
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https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/34854.Catherine_Asaro |
Saga of the Skolian Empire series
Catherine Asaro - Primary Inversion (read by Anna Fields)
Catherine Asaro - Catch The Lightning (read by Anna Fields)
Catherine Asaro - The Last Hawk (read by Anna Fields)
Catherine Asaro - The Radiant Seas (read by Anna Fields)
Catherine Asaro - Ascendant Sun (read by Anna Fields)
Catherine Asaro - The Quantum Rose (read by Anna Fields)
Catherine Asaro - Spherical Harmonic (read by Liza Kaplan)
Catherine Asaro - The Moon's Shadow (read by Dennis Holland)
Catherine Asaro - Skyfall (read by Jill Fox)
Catherine Asaro - Schism (read by Suzanne Weintraub)
Catherine Asaro - The Final Key (read by Suzanne Weintraub)
Catherine Asaro - The Ruby Dice (read by Suzanne Toren)
Catherine Asaro - Diamond Star (read by Andy Paris)
Catherine Asaro - Carnelians (read by Suzanne Toren)
Lost Continent series
Catherine Asaro - The Charmed Sphere (read by Melissa Hughes)
Catherine Asaro - The Misted Cliffs (read by Melissa Hughes)
Catherine Asaro - The Dawn Star (read by Melissa Hughes)
Catherine Asaro - The Fire Opal (read by Melissa Hughes)
Catherine Asaro - The Night Bird (read by Melissa Hughes)
Charon series
Catherine Asaro - Sunrise Alley (read by Hillary Huber)
Catherine Asaro - Alpha (read by Hillary Huber)
Major Bhaajan series book 1
Catherine Asaro - Undercity (read by Morgan Hallett)
Other
Catherine Asaro - The Veiled Web (read by Caroline Shaffer)
Catherine Asaro - Aurora In Four Voices (read by Sylvia Roldan Dohi)
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Saga of the Skolian Empire series
http://rapidgator.net/file/fd4f3cf9f1c6e07c3969a9ef10264675/Primary_Inversion.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/379750b60006ab0cb4fac9f6750f2cfb/Catch_The_Lightning.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/ed559ed37c0174feebc08556b4a9a1d6/The_Last_Hawk.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/275c91df07bc6e50c934908b4ca8f24a/The_Radiant_Seas.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a57e5573098a428b9bfd2f4d1bf8d387/Ascendant_Sun.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/920efdee8e3fc8e61059adb6b3a485a3/The_Quantum_Rose.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/19b72509f70decdf14494cfede13772b/Spherical_Harmonic.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/9e4fdb90af470f239ebec1fcaa752fc6/The_Moons_Shadow.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/6058eccb704f62b3adca3bd59e532e6e/Skyfall.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/2b5c5361743d9f877da10c479009cb88/Schism.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/27bb7b7d7032faaad4f8466fdb8ff494/The_Final_Key.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1bac4fcdafec4d8b96c06da29597c192/The_Ruby_Dice.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3dcadc2e0ee8240dd00851bd054022f8/Diamond_Star.part1.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c2a89742587b427104227f6844b0a569/Diamond_Star.part2.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/14b844dfefa56a5169c2040d45e4ffd7/Carnelians.rar.html
Lost Continent series
http://rapidgator.net/file/e91a416697b2bf47d4cf191e00659b27/The_Charmed_Sphere.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a655f32576eb93cabc48f6c93af8b4e9/The_Misted_Cliffs.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/2f12795dcfc79c5b98fc6ce2afc8c88a/The_Dawn_Star.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/bb5c27e63f7936e297bf32e6dd9ea280/The_Fire_Opal.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/8382109699fe498bbd4fff3d16bdc280/The_Night_Bird.rar.html
Charon series
http://rapidgator.net/file/96ccd0c391594446931f52d0cb20e97b/Sunrise_Alley.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/0b95b6f2cc023599a0a2239a511ec15d/Alpha.rar.html
Major Bhaajan series
http://rapidgator.net/file/aae0b762fbcd8707440431974f025eae/Undercity.rar.html
Other
http://rapidgator.net/file/464eaa7d6dc0f17cd58d6a50e16d39d6/The_Veiled_Web.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/55fd94646fa56dd259e3c0e83b348042/Aurora_In_Four_Voices.rar.html |
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