History Creator / CatherineAsaro

Catherine Asaro (born on November 6, 1955) is an American author of both science fiction and fantasy novels. She has a [=PhD=] in chemical physics from Harvard, and, as one might expect, her science fiction tends strongly towards the harder end of the {{Mohs scale| of Science Fiction hardness}}. She is one of a very few authors to combine hard SF and SpaceOpera with RomanceNovel tropes. She is best known for her sweeping, multivolume, multigenerational Literature/SkolianSaga, about competing galactic empires. The method of space travel in the Skolian Saga is based on a paper she published in the ''American Journal of Physics''.

* The Charmed Sphere

!!These tropes apply to Catherine Asaro
* GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave: She's 61 years old and looks about 10-20 years younger than that.
* HotScientist: The woman holds a [=PhD=] in chemical physics from [[IvyLeagueForEveryone Harvard]] and could easily be mistaken for a former model.
** Also crosses over into Main/HotTeacher territory.
* InTheBlood: Her father, Frank Asaro, was also a chemist....who discovered the iridium anomaly that led to the postulation of the Asteroid-Impact Theory.
** Her daughter Cathy is also a ballet dancer and studied math at the University of Cambridge and UC Berkeley.
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In addition to writing, she teaches math, physics, and chemistry. She is a former president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, and a member of a think tank of speculative fiction authors who advise the government on future trends. She is also a strong advocate of encouraging girls and young women to study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

Catherine Asaro is an American author of both science fiction and fantasy novels. She has a [=PhD=] in chemical physics from Harvard, and, as one might expect, her science fiction tends strongly towards the harder end of the {{Mohs scale| of Science Fiction hardness}}. She is one of a very few authors to combine hard SF and SpaceOpera with RomanceNovel tropes. She is best known for her sweeping, multivolume, multigenerational Literature/SkolianSaga, about competing galactic empires. The method of space travel in the Skolian Saga is based on a paper she published in the ''American Journal of Physics''.

** Also crosses over into Main/otTeacher territory.

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Catherine Asaro is the author of both fantasy and science fiction novels.

!!Saga of the Skolian Empire (listed in internal chronology)
* Skyfall
* "The City of Cries" (short story)
* "Stained Glass Heart" (short story)
* "Echoes of Pride" (short story)
* The Final Key
* "The Edges of Never-Haven" (short story)
* "Light and Shadow" (short story)
* "Aurora in Four Voices" (short story)
* "Walk in Silence" (short story)
* "The Pyre of New Day" (short story)
* The Last Hawk
* Primary Inversion
* The Radiant Seas
* "The Shadowed Heart" (short story)
* Ascendant Sun
* The Quantum Rose
* Spherical Harmonic
* The Moon's Shadow
* Diamond Star
* "A Roll of the Dice" (short story)
* "The Ruby Dice" (novella)
* The Ruby Dice (full length novel)
* Carnelians
* "Ave de Paso" (short story)
* Catch the Lightning

!!Tropes found in Catherine Asaro's work

* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: The Eubian Aristos are an entire race of these.
* TheKingdom: In the Saga of the Skolian Empire series, the Skolian Imperialate is TheKingdom following the events of ''Spherical Harmonics''. This is a rare case of TheKingdom being called an Empire. Indeed, even before the events of ''Spherical Harmonics'', the Skolian Imperialate is not TheEmpire -- it is TheFederation. Ironically, TheEmpire of the Skolian Empire series [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny calls itself a "Concord"]].
* PhlebotinumRebel: In the books about the Skolian Imperialate, the Imperialate was founded by a woman who was genetically engineered in the Eubian Concord, but rebelled against her intended purpose and escaped. The Imperialate is now the only society capable of holding the Concord at bay from conquering the entire galaxy.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: The Eubian Traders are a whole race of this.
* ShownTheirWork: ''Spherical Harmonic'' and ''The Quantum Rose'' are prime examples of Asaro's use of mathematics.
* SeriousBusiness: ''The Last Hawk'', "A Roll of the Dice", and ''The Ruby Dice'' have a dice game in called Quis that is very important.
* TransplantedHumans: In the "Saga of the Skolian Empire" books, ''someone'' took a group of humans from Earth around 4000 BC and transplanted them to a faraway planet (much like ''Series/StargateSG1''). These humans rediscovered spaceflight (twice -- once thousands of years ago, and again around the 1600s AD) and so were already spacefaring when Earthlings finally left home.

!!Works

!!!Saga of the Skolian Empire (listed in internal chronology)
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!!!Sunrise Alley
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!!!The Lost Continent
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!!!Standalone

!!!Nonfiction Essays

* AncientAstronauts
* AwfulTruth
* TheKingdom
* PhlebotinumRebel

* SeriousBusiness: ''The Last Hawk'', "A Roll of the Dice", and ''The Ruby Dice''' have a dice game in called Quis that is very important.
* TransplantedHumans

* TransplantedHumans
* PhlebotinumRebel
* TheKingdom

* RedEyesTakeWarning: The Eubian Traders are a whole race of this.