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3 | 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 to be rather hard. 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''. |
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5 | 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). She is also a former ballet and jazz dancer, having performed with dance companies and in musicals on both coasts and in Ohio. While at Harvard, she founded and served as artistic director and a principal dancer for The Mainly Jazz Dance Company and the Harvard University Ballet. After she graduated, her undergraduate students took over Mainly Jazz and turned it into a club at the college. |
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7 | She has won several awards for her fiction, including the UsefulNotes/NebulaAward for her novel ''The Quantum Rose'' and for her short story, "The Space-Time Pool". |
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9 | She has also collaborated with a rock band, Point Valid, to create a CD, ''Diamond Star'', based on the Skolian Saga. All the lyrics and some of the vocals were by Asaro. |
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11 | [[folder:Works]] |
12 | !!Saga of the Skolian Empire |
13 | * see Literature/SkolianSaga |
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15 | !!Sunrise Alley |
16 | * Sunrise Alley |
17 | * Alpha |
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19 | !!The Lost Continent |
20 | * Literature/TheCharmedSphere |
21 | * The Misted Cliffs |
22 | * The Dawn Star |
23 | * The Fire Opal |
24 | * The Night Bird |
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26 | !!Standalone |
27 | * The Veiled Web |
28 | * The Phoenix Code |
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30 | !!Nonfiction Essays |
31 | * "A Luminous Future" Year Million: Science at the Far Edge of Knowledge |
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34 | !!Works by Catherine Asaro with their own trope page |
35 | * Literature/SkolianSaga |
36 | * Literature/TheCharmedSphere |
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38 | !!Tropes found in Catherine Asaro's other works |
39 | * AwfulTruth: The reason why Dancer left her husband in the backstory of ''The Misted Cliffs''. |
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