A Decade of Hit Books

Saga of the Skolian Empire by Catherine Asaro

15 primary works • 30 total works
The publication of the series is not the same as the internal chronology of the story. For details, contrast the reading order by date of publication with the reading order by internal chronology at the author’s bibilography page at Wikipedia.

Book 1

Primary Inversion
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3.74 · 4318 Ratings · 305 Reviews · published 1995 · 2 editions
The Skolian Empire rules a third of the civilized …

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    Book 2

    Catch the Lightning
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    3.76     · 1616 Ratings · 90 Reviews · published 1996 · 16 editions
    When a young girl from Earth falls in love with a …

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    Book 2.5

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    0.00     · 1 edition

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    Book 3

    The Last Hawk
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    3.92     · 1492 Ratings · 68 Reviews · published 1997 · 19 editions
    When Kelric, a scion of the imperial family of Sko…

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    Book 4

    The Radiant Seas
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    3.96     · 1369 Ratings · 66 Reviews · published 1998 · 27 editions
    Living in exile on a deserted planet, Sauscony and…

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    Book 4.1 (Wages of Honor)

    Infinite Stars
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    3.85     · 507 Ratings · 78 Reviews · published 2017 · 1 edition
    The seductive thrill of uncharted worlds, of dista…

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    Book 5

    Ascendant Sun
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    3.90     · 1156 Ratings · 49 Reviews · published 2000 · 21 editions
    Ascendant Sun is the direct sequel to The Last Haw…

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    Book 6

    The Quantum Rose
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    3.57     · 2175 Ratings · 159 Reviews · published 2000 · 26 editions
    A New Adventure in the Saga of the Skolian Empire.…

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    Book 7

    Spherical Harmonic
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    3.85     · 836 Ratings · 37 Reviews · published 2001 · 21 editions
    Separated for decades by circumstance and politica…

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    Book 8

    The Moon's Shadow
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    3.93     · 901 Ratings · 36 Reviews · published 2003 · 12 editions
    At the age of seventeen the young nobleman named J…

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    Book 9

    Skyfall
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    3.79     · 1107 Ratings · 48 Reviews · published 2003 · 15 editions
    The Birth of an Empire
    Skyfall goes back to the ver…

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    Book 10

    Schism
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    3.84     · 800 Ratings · 51 Reviews · published 2004 · 10 editions
    In 2002, Catherine Asaro won the Nebula Award for …

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    Book 11

    The Final Key
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    3.96     · 718 Ratings · 28 Reviews · published 2005 · 11 editions
    Catherine Asaro has won numerous awards for her Sa…

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    Book 12

    The Ruby Dice
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    4.06     · 845 Ratings · 44 Reviews · published 2008 · 9 editions
    Two men, two empires.

    Jaibriol ruled the Eubian Con…

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    Book 13

    Diamond Star
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    3.73     · 692 Ratings · 77 Reviews · published 2009 · 17 editions
    Del was a rock singer. He was also the renegade so…

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    Book 14

    Carnelians
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    4.03     · 558 Ratings · 58 Reviews · published 2011 · 8 editions
    The leaders of the Eubian empire and Skolian Imper…

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    Aurora In Four Voices
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    3.87     · 93 Ratings · 11 Reviews · published 2011 · 4 editions
    Catherine Asaro's first collection contains five s…

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    The City of Cries
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    4.21     · 163 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 2011 · 2 editions
    Originally appeared in Down These Dark Spaceways.

    M…

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    The Spacetime Pool
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    3.63     · 222 Ratings · 24 Reviews · published 2008 · 4 editions
    From the Kindle description of the book:

    Three shor…

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    Undercity
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    3.98     · 1153 Ratings · 175 Reviews · published 2014 · 9 editions
    BOOK ONE IN A BRAND NEW SERIES by Nebula and Hugo …

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    The Bronze Skies
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    4.21     · 557 Ratings · 73 Reviews · published 2017 · 6 editions
    Major Bhaajan achieved the impossible. Born Underc…

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    Irresistible Forces
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    3.53     · 817 Ratings · 66 Reviews · published 2004 · 9 editions
    New York Times bestselling authors Mary Jo Putney,…

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    Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy
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    3.76     · 491 Ratings · 31 Reviews · published 2004 · 5 editions
    Bram Stoker Award-winning editor Al Sarrantonio fo…

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    The Space Opera Renaissance
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    3.94     · 327 Ratings · 41 Reviews · published 2006 · 7 editions
    "Space opera", once a derisive term for cheap pulp…

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    Visions of the Future
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    4.01     · 85 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2015 · 2 editions
    Visions of the Future is a collection of stories a…

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    Sextopia
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    3.81     · 16 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2001 · 2 editions
    "Books are such a civilized medium, don't you thin…

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    Erotic Fantastic: The Best of Circlet Press 1992-2002
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    3.82     · 34 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2003 · 5 editions
    In the first ten years of its existence, Circlet P…

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    The Journey Home
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    3.41     · 63 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2004 · 4 editions
    Soldier, Warrior, Rebel . . .

    He makes you cry for …

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    Best New Paranormal Romance
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    3.34     · 65 Ratings · 13 Reviews · published 2006 · 5 editions
    Enchanting and enchanted lovers, magical romance, …

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    Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction
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    3.33     · 165 Ratings · 24 Reviews · published 2001 · 6 editions
    This landmark anthology presents thirty groundbrea…

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