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Catherine Asaro was born in Oakland, California and grew up in El Cerrito, just north of Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. in Chemical Physics and MA in Physics, both from Harvard, and a BS with Highest Honors in Chemistry from UCLA. Among the places she has done research are the University of Toronto in Canada, the Max Planck Institut fur Astrophysik in Germany, and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Her research involved using quantum theory to describe the behavior of atoms and molecules. Catherine was a physics professor until 1990, when she established Molecudyne Research, which she currently runs.

Catherine Asaro's fiction is a successful blend of hard science fiction, romance, and exciting space adventure. Her novel, The Quantum Rose, won the Nebula Award for best novel of 2001. She is a three-time winner of the Romantic Times Book Club award for "Best Science Fiction Novel." To date, she has published 16 novels, 11 of which belong to her Saga of the Skolian Empire. The latest, The Final Key (December 2005), completes the Triad duology, a sprawling space adventure begun with Schism. Triad serves as a great introduction to The Skolian Saga, as it depicts the earlier years of Sauscony Valdoria, the heroine of Primary Inversion and Radiant Seas.

July 2006 saw the appearance of The Dawn Star, third in the romantic fantasy Aronsdale series from Luna Books. Alpha, another near-future science fiction thriller concerning the wonders and dangers of artificial intelligence, is due out in September 2005. January 2006 saw the mass market reprint of the NAL anthology, Irresistible Forces, in which Asaro debuted as an editor. Irresistible Forces features new novellas by six top authors in the genres of science fiction, romance, and fantasy: Lois McMaster Bujold, Mary Jo Putney, Jo Beverley, Jennifer Roberson, Deb Stover, and Catherine herself.

Catherine has also published short fiction in Analog magazine and in several anthologies, as well as reviews, nonfiction essays, and scientific papers in refereed academic journals. Her paper "Complex Speeds and Special Relativity," which appeared in the April 1996 issue of The American Journal of Physics, forms the basis for some of the science in her novels.