Catherine Asaro

For centuries The City of Cries—one of the most desired locales in the Skolian Imperialate—has existed by the thinnest of threads.

Three interstellar civilizations vie for honors in the Olympics, including the Skolian Imperialate. The thriving, populus worlds of by humanity have always dominated the Games. The team from Raylicon, a dying world of scorching temperatures, has never won honors.

The Skolian Empire rules a third of the civilized galaxy through its mastery of faster-than-light communication....

In the galaxy-spanning future, Major Bhaajan is a tough female P.I. who works the dangerous streets of Undercity....

Tough female P.I. exploring the underworld of a vast star empire. Book 2 in a new series set in the world of Catherine Asaro's Skolian Empire series. Major Bhaajan achieved the impossible. Born to the Undercity, the slums below the City of Cries on the planet Raylicon, she broke free from...

A young girl from Earth falls in love with a handsome stranger, and becomes a pawn in an interstellar war.

Survive the City of Cries Bhaajan grew up in the Undercity, a community hidden in the ruins buried beneath the glittering City of Cries. Caught between the astonishing beauty and crushing poverty of that life, and caught by wanderlust, she enlisted in the military. Now retired, Major Bhaajan is...

Kelric, a scion of the imperial family of Skolia, crash-lands his fighter on the off-limits planet of Coba....

Selei City is the capital of the Imerialte and one of the most desired locales in all of the Skolian Empire. But its thin veneer of civilization is cracked when a series of brutal crimes implicates those in political power in a vast conspiracy....

The Ruby Dynasty, hereditary rulers of the Skolian Empire, struggle to bring together the tattered remnants of their family in the shadow of a disastrous interstellar war....

The Saga of the Skolian Empire is Catherine Asaro's trademark series....

When a shipwrecked stranger washed up on the beach near research scientist Samantha Bryton's home, she was unaware that he was something more than human....

War between the Eubian Concord and the Skolians has devastated the galaxy before. Now another epic clash is brewing, and the leaders of both empires might be powerless to stop it....

Eldrinson Valdoria is a bard and leader on the planet Skyfall, a world with a culture considered primitive by the starflung civilization of the Imperialate....

This sequel to the acclaimed Primary Inversion continues the story of Sauscony and Jaibriol....

This collection of Catherine Asaro's show fiction contains five stories, including the Nebula Award-winning novella, Spacetime Pool....

Ballerina Lucia del Mar has two great passions: dance, which consumes most of her waking hours, and the Internet, which brings the outside world into her tightly regimented life....

Ascendant Sun is the direct sequel to the Nebula Award finalist The Last Hawk....

Two-time Nebula Award winner Catherine Asaro takes her immensely popular Skolian Empire saga to new heights....

At the age of 17, the young nobleman named Jaibriol Qox becomes ruler of a vast galactic empire - and loses everything he has ever valued....