Catherine Asaro

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

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.

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....

Charon, a ruthless criminal and practitioner of illegal robotics, has died, and General Thomas Wharington believes his team has deleted all the electronic copies the inventor created of himself....

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....

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

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....

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

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

The Final Key is the completion of the duology Triad, which reveals the epic story of how a war of galactic proportions first exploded between two great empires....

Schism is how it all began, harkening back to the early years of the Skolian Empire, back to the beginning of the war between Skolia and the Euban Traders....

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....

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

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....

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....

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