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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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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''.

Context Creator / CatherineAsaro