Catherine Asaro

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  • Bibliography:
    39 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1993
  • Latest Book:
    July 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Dust Knights

1 - The Down Deep (Jul-2024)

The Lost Continent

1 - Moonglow (Nov-2003)
2 - Charmed Sphere (Feb-2004)
3 - The Misted Cliffs (Jul-2005)
4 - The Dawn Star (Jul-2006)
5 - The Fire Opal (Jul-2007)
6 - The Night Bird (Apr-2008)

Major Bhaajan

1 - Undercity (Dec-2014)
2 - The Bronze Skies (Sep-2017)
3 - The Vanished Seas (Jul-2020)
4 - The Jigsaw Assassin (Jul-2022)

Saga of the Skolian Empire

1 - Primary Inversion (Mar-1995)
2 - Catch the Lightning (Dec-1996)
3 - The Last Hawk (Nov-1997)
4 - The Radiant Seas (Jan-1999)
5 - Ascendant Sun (Mar-2000)
6 - The Quantum Rose (Dec-2000)
7 - Spherical Harmonic (Nov-2001)
8 - The Moon's Shadow (Mar-2003)
9 - Skyfall (Oct-2003)
10 - Schism (Dec-2004)
11 - The Final Key (Dec-2005)
12 - The Ruby Dice (Jan-2008)
13 - Diamond Star (May-2009)
14 - Carnelians (Oct-2011)
15 - Undercity (Dec-2014)
16 - The Bronze Skies (Sep-2017)
17 - The Vanished Seas (Jul-2020)
The City of Cries (May-1993)

Sunrise Alley

1 - Sunrise Alley (Aug-2004)
2 - Alpha (Sep-2006)

Book List in Order: 39 titles

  • The City of Cries

    Saga of the Skolian Empire

    Major Bhaajan returns to the desolate, sand-swept world of her rough-edged childhood because her detective skills have earned her a lucrative assignment: find a runaway son of the ruling dynasty. Forays into Raylicon's Underworld, treachery, encounte...

  • Primary Inversion

    Saga of the Skolian Empire - 1

    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 b...

  • Catch the Lightning

    Saga of the Skolian Empire - 2

    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 interstellar spac...

  • The Last Hawk

    Saga of the Skolian Empire - 3

  • The Radiant Seas

    Saga of the Skolian Empire - 4

    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 H...

  • The Veiled Web

    WEB OF DECEIT Ballerina Lucia del Mar has two great passions: dance, which consumes most of her waking hours, and the World Wide Web, which brings the outside world into her tightly regimented life. Lucia's two passions collide when a White House pe...

  • Ascendant Sun

    Saga of the Skolian Empire - 5

    "O lucky, lucky readers. Catherine Asaro adds another glittering gem to her Skolian collection with Ascendant Sun, the continuing adventures of Kelric, the Last Hawk, after his return from the isolated planet of Coba. Skolia, however, is very differe...

  • The Phoenix Code

    DEADLY AWAKENING When robotics expert Megan O'Flannery is offered the chance to direct MindSim's cutting-edge program to develop a self-aware android, it's the opportunity of a lifetime. But the project is trouble plagued-the third prototype "kill...

  • The Quantum Rose

    Saga of the Skolian Empire - 6

    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 we...



  • Spherical Harmonic

    Saga of the Skolian Empire - 7

    THE REBIRTH OF A DYNASTY 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 w...

  • The Moon's Shadow

    Saga of the Skolian Empire - 8

    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 th...

  • Skyfall

    Saga of the Skolian Empire - 9

    THE BIRTH OF AN EMPIRE Skyfallgoes back to the beginning, to the rebirth 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 demo...

  • Moonglow

    in Charmed Destinies
    The Lost Continent - 1

    In a world where kings married for magic, Iris Larkspur was required to wed the prince -- despite the spell that kept him deaf, mute and blind. Healing her bridegroom would take a power greater than any she'd ever known -- one only two bonded hearts ...

  • Charmed Sphere

    The Lost Continent - 2

    What was the use of being a powerful mage if you couldn't learn the spells? Once Chime had been the most promising mage in the land, feted and celebrated for her potential and future role in the kingdom. Then Iris, her young competitor, made a stu...

  • Stained Glass Heart

    in Irresistible Forces

    Hearts collide and desire consumes in worlds and ages far from our own.... Six of today's most popular authors join talents in this unique anthology that shows love can conquer all...even the boundaries of time and space. These stories -- many...

  • Sunrise Alley

    Sunrise Alley - 1

    HER LOVER WAS AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE -- BUT THEIR LOVE WAS REAL When the shipwrecked, half-drowned stranger washed up on the beach near research scientist Samantha Bryton's home, she was unaware that he was an experiment conducted by Charon,...

  • Schism

    Saga of the Skolian Empire - 10

    Return to the early years of the Skolian Empire Before open conflict waged between the Skolian Empire and the Euban Traders, there was a cold war, a battle of subterfuge and treaty negotiation. But now, Eube senses an opportunity, for strife has r...

  • The Shadowed Heart

    in The Journey Home

    Soldier, Warrior, Rebel . . . He makes you cry for his pain and cheer for his victories. He fills your daydreams and remains etched in your memory for all time. He's the wounded hero--the most compelling figure in romantic fiction. And he's about...

  • The Misted Cliffs

    The Lost Continent - 3

    One generation after war had nearly destroyed three nations, evil was returning. And only Mel Dawnfield's daring sacrifice could stop it... The promise of peace rested on this young woman's noble vow: to marry Cobalt the Dark -- heir to a family o...



  • The Final Key

    Saga of the Skolian Empire - 11

    The Final Key is the second and concluding part of the story known as Triad, which began in Schism. Schism ended with the Skolian Empire torn asunder by personal conflict within the royal family, as Sauscony defied her father and joined the Skolian m...

  • The Dawn Star

    The Lost Continent - 4

    High in the Misted Cliffs liesa a mage unlike any other. With no teacher to guide her, no mentor to discourage her from the impossible, Mel Dawnfield pushed her magic to its limits -- and surpassed them. Only to find that her powers aren't enough ...

  • Alpha

    Sunrise Alley - 2

    Charon was the most ruthless-and brilliant-criminal of the twenty-first century, a practitioner of illegal robotics and android research. He is dead now, and General Thomas Wharington believes his team of experts has deleted all the electronic copies...

  • The Fire Opal

    The Lost Continent - 5

    Deep in the sun-drenched desert, priestess Ginger-Sun carries the power of shape mages. And whispers abound: Is she descended from the beloved Sunset Goddess, or are her nighttime rituals filled with wickedness? Ginger herself is uncertain, until a s...

  • The Ruby Dice

    Saga of the Skolian Empire - 12

    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 ba...

  • The Night Bird

    The Lost Continent - 6

    For centuries the women of Aronsdale have lived freely among the green and misted valleys. Creatures of exotic beauty and sensuality, they possess powerful skills of enchantment...and young Allegro is no different. But her life--and Aronsdale's indep...

  • Diamond Star

    Saga of the Skolian Empire - 13

    I LOVE ROCK AND ROLL Del Valdoria was an heir of the Ruby Dynasty, rulers of the interstellar empire called the Skolian Imperialate. But he just wanted to sing holo-rock -- not a respectable activity for a Ruby prince. To make things more complicat...

  • Carnelians

    Saga of the Skolian Empire - 14

    Carnelians. Two empires. And five hundred years of war. The leaders of the Eubian empire and Skolian Imperialate have survived political intrigue, military coups and murder attempts as they worked to forge a peace treaty between their two empires....

  • The Spacetime Pool

    A collection that includes the Nebula Awardâ€"winning titular novella and “Light and Shadow,” the story that begins the Saga of the Skolian Empire series. In “The Spacetime Pool,” recent MIT grad Janelle Aulair is hiking through the Great Smo...

  • Nebula Awards Showcase 2013

    The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories in the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America(R). The editor selected by SFWA...



  • Lightning Strike: Book 1

    Tina Pulivok is returning home one night to her tough Los Angeles neighborhood when she is saved from local thugs by a man who seems lost -- an understatement, as he and his advanced Jag ship arrived from a distant galaxy, a different timeline and an...

  • Undercity

    Major Bhaajan - 1
    Saga of the Skolian Empire - 15

    BOOK ONE IN A BRAND NEW SERIES by Nebula and Hugo Award Winner Catherine Asaro set in the world of her Skolian Empire universe. In the galaxy-spanning future, Major Bhaajan is a tough female P.I. who works the dangerous streets of Undercity. Majo...

  • The Bronze Skies

    Major Bhaajan - 2
    Saga of the Skolian Empire - 16

    TOUGH FEMALE P.I. EXPLORING THE UNDERWORLD OF A VAST STAR EMPIRE. Book two 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 Crie...

  • Lightning Strike: Book 2

    A new Universe. A new Time. Tina Pulivok is thrust into an unknown universe, a reality that exists hundreds of years ahead of her own time, the 1980s on Earth. Raised in a Maya village and before moving to an East L.A. barrio in California, she kn...

  • The Vanished Seas

    Major Bhaajan - 3
    Saga of the Skolian Empire - 17

    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 enliste...

  • The Jigsaw Assassin

    Major Bhaajan - 4

    NEW IN THE MAJOR BHAAJAN SERIES: A TOUGH FEMALE PI NOVEL WITH NOIR OVERTONES AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF INTERSTELLAR POLITICSSelei City is the capital of the Imperialate and one of the most desired locales in all of the Skolian Empire. But its thin ...

  • Lightning Strike

    A two-part adventure of time travel, romance, and interstellar intrigue that takes you â€śfrom the L.A. barrios to the universe! Excellent” (The San Diego Union-Tribune).   Born in Mexico but living in East LA much of her young ...

  • Earthborn

    From a Mayan village to an L.A. barrio to a chance to reach the stars . . . Part One of â€śa space adventure for the twenty-first century” (Nancy Kress, Hugo and Nebula Awardâ€"winning author).   Not much surprises waitress...

  • Starborn

    Following her heart, she left Earth behind -- and now only she can save it . . .    Tina Santis Pulivok never thought anyone would make sense of the strange way her mind could become saturated with other people’s moods. But...

  • The Down Deep

    Dust Knights - 1

    DUST KNIGHTS: A NEW SERIES IN CATHERINE ASARO’S SKOLIAN EMPIRE: Major Bhaajan and her gang of Dust Knights act as guides and bodyguards to a member of the Imperial family on a mission of good will in the Undercity. But what awaits them ...



Award-Winning Books by Catherine Asaro

The City of Cries
2007 RWA PRISM Award -- Best of the Best
2007 RWA PRISM Award -- Novella
Moonglow
2003 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best Romance Novella
The Quantum Rose
2002 Nebula Award -- Novel
Skyfall
2003 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Science Fiction Novel
The Veiled Web
2000 RWA PRISM Award -- Futuristic/Fantasy


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Catherine Asaro has published 39 books.

Catherine Asaro does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Down Deep, was published in July 2024.

The first book by Catherine Asaro, The City of Cries, was published in May 1993.

Yes. Catherine Asaro has 5 series.
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