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The Birth of an Empire Skyfall goes back to the very roots of Skolia, showing how a chance meeting on a backwater planet forges a vast interstellar empire. Eldrinson, a provincial ruler on a primitive planet, is plagued by inner demons. But when he meets Roca, a beautiful and mysterious woman from the stars, he whisks her away to his mountain retreat, inadvertently starting a great interstellar war, and... (more)

Spherical Harmonic (The Saga of the Skolian Empire)

Saga of the Skolian Empire: Book 7

Spherical Harmonic (The Saga of the Skolian Empire)

by Catherine Asaro

Separated for decades by circumstance and political machinations, the Ruby Dynasty, hereditary rulers of Skolia, struggle to bring together the tattered remnants of their family in the shadow of a disastrous interstellar war. Too many have died, others are presumed lost, yet Dyhianna, the Ruby Pharaoh, must move quickly if they are reassume their rightful place as rulers of the Skolian Empire.

Saga of the Skolian Empire: Book 12

The Ruby Dice (Skolian Empire)

by Catherine Asaro

Two men, two empires. Jaibriol ruled the Eubian Concord: over two trillion people across more than a thousand worlds and habitats. Kelric ruled the Skolian Imperialate. War had come before—ten years ago, Jaibriol had lost his parents in the final battle of the Radiance War between the Concord and the Imperialate—and it might come again, devastating vast swathes of the galaxy. Neither Jaibriol nor Kelric wanted... (more)

Saga of the Skolian Empire: Book 13

Diamond Star

by Catherine Asaro

Del was a rock singer. He was also the renegade son of the Ruby Dynasty, which made his career choice less than respectable, and gave him more to worry about than getting gigs and not getting cheated by recording companies, club owners, or his agent. For one thing, the Ruby Dynasty ruled the Skolian Imperialate, an interstellar Empire, which had recently had a war with another empire, the Eubian Concord. For... (more)

The Moon's Shadow (The Saga of the Skolian Empire)

Saga of the Skolian Empire: Book 8

The Moon's Shadow (The Saga of the Skolian Empire)

by Catherine Asaro

At the age of seventeen the young nobleman named Jaibriol Qox became ruler of a vast galactic empire-- and lost everything he had ever valued. Born of a clandestine liaison between a renegade daughter of the Skolian Imperialate and a scion of the genetically engineered Eubian Traders, Jai Qox grew up in exile, unaware of the powers that coursed through his noble blood. In the waning days of the bloody Radiance... (more)

Primary Inversion (The Saga of the Skolian Empire)

Saga of the Skolian Empire: Book 1

Primary Inversion (The Saga of the Skolian Empire)

by Catherine Asaro

The Skolian Empire rules a third of the civilized galaxy through its mastery of faster-than-light communication. But war with the rival empire of the Traders seems imminent, a war that can only lead to slavery for the Skolians or the destruction of both sides. Destructive skirmishes have already occurred. A desperate attempt must be made to avert total disaster.

Saga of the Skolian Empire: Book 10

Schism

by Catherine Asaro

In 2002, Catherine Asaro won the Nebula Award for The Quantum Rose , the sixth novel in her Saga of the Skolian Empire. This very same novel was also named Best SF Novel by the Romantic Times . Schism: Part One of Triad is the tenth novel in this multiple award-winning series, and represents an excellent entry point into the series. For Schism harkens back to the early years of the Skolian Empire, back to... (more)

Catch The Lightning (The Saga of the Skolian Empire)

Saga of the Skolian Empire: Book 2

Catch The Lightning (The Saga of the Skolian Empire)

by Catherine Asaro

In the distant future, the Skolian empire rules one third of the human galaxy, and is the most powerful of all. For the ruling family has the power of telepathy, and through it, the ability to communicate faster than light across the interstellar space. but their most determined enemy, the traders, who thrive on human pain, need to interbreed with a Skolian to gain their powers. And now they have her.

Saga of the Skolian Empire: Book 11

The Final Key

by Catherine Asaro

Catherine Asaro has won numerous awards for her Saga of the Skolian Empire novels, including the Nebula Award and two Romantic Times awards for Best SF Novel. Combining cutting edge scientific theory with grand romantic adventure, this series represents space opera at its finest. The Final Key is the second half of the story arc known as Triad , which began in Schism . Schism ended with the Skolian Empire... (more)

Saga of the Skolian Empire: Book 3

The Last Hawk

by Catherine Asaro

When Kelric, a scion of the imperial family of Skolia, crash-lands his fighter on the off-limits planet of Coba, he figures it will be only a short time before he makes his way home. But he fails to account for the powerful matriarchy of Coba, the mistresses of the great estates who do not want the Empire to know about their recent cultural advances. First they take him prisoner. Then, one by one, the most... (more)

Saga of the Skolian Empire: Book 5

Ascendant Sun

by Catherine Asaro

Ascendant Sun is a stand-alone novel in the same universe as the Nebula Award finalist The Last Hawk, in which Kelric, a prince of Imperial Skolia, crashed on the planet Coba. Now eighteen years later he has escaped Coba and returned home--only to find Skolia in chaos. In the aftermath of the Radiance War, all surviving members of his family are prisoners of Earth or the Trader empire. Only Kelric ... (more)

Saga of the Skolian Empire: Book 4

The Radiant Seas

by Catherine Asaro

Living in exile on a deserted planet, Sauscony and Jaibriol, each the heir to an interstellar empire, become entangled in the machinations of the Skolian Empire. Interstellar war erupts and Jaibriol is snatched away to be the unwilling ruler of the Highton Aristos. Sauscony must lead an invading space fleet to rescue him from his own Empire-without revealing that they are married. With much of interstellar... (more)

Saga of the Skolian Empire: Book 6

The Quantum Rose

by Catherine Asaro

A New Adventure in the Saga of the Skolian Empire. Kamoj Argali is the young ruler of an impoverished province on a backward planet. To keep her people from starving, she has agreed to marry Jax Ironbridge, the boorish and brutal ruler of a prosperous province. But before Argali and Ironbridge are wed, a mysterious stranger from a distant planet sweeps in and forces Kamoj into marriage, throwing her world into... (more)

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Skyfall

by Catherine Asaro

Spherical Harmonic (The Saga of the Skolian Empire)

by Catherine Asaro

The Ruby Dice (Skolian Empire)

by Catherine Asaro

Diamond Star

by Catherine Asaro

The Moon's Shadow (The Saga of the Skolian Empire)

by Catherine Asaro

Primary Inversion (The Saga of the Skolian Empire)

by Catherine Asaro

Schism

by Catherine Asaro

Catch The Lightning (The Saga of the Skolian Empire)

by Catherine Asaro

The Final Key

by Catherine Asaro

The Last Hawk

by Catherine Asaro

Ascendant Sun

by Catherine Asaro

The Radiant Seas

by Catherine Asaro

The Quantum Rose

by Catherine Asaro