Skyfall - Rilegato

Asaro, Catherine

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0765306387 ISBN 13: 9780765306388

Casa editrice: Tor Books, 2003

Riassunto

When Kurj, a provincial ruler on a primitive planet, encounters Roca, a mysterious and beautiful woman from the stars, he brings her back to his mountain retreat, but a chance storm strands them in the mountain, igniting an interstellar war and bringing about the birth of the next generation of rulers for the Sklolian Empire. 15,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

Catherine Asaro was born in Oakland, California and grew up in El Cerrito, just north of Berkeley. She received her Phd 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 für Astrophysik in Germany, and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Her research involves 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.
A former ballerina, Catherine has performed with ballets and in musicals on both coasts and in Ohio. In the 1980s she was a principal dancer and artistic director of the Mainly Jazz Dancers and the Harvard University Ballet. Catherine still teaches ballet in Maryland.

Catherine's fiction is a successful blend of hard science fiction, romance, and exciting space adventure. She has published more than ten novels, almost all of which belong to her Saga of the Skolian Empire, including The Quantum Rose, which won the Nebula Award for best novel of 2001

Her husband is John Kendall Cannizzo, an astrophysicist at NASA. They have one daughter, a young ballet dancer who loves math.

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Praise for Catherine Asaro's Saga of the Skolian Empire

"Asaro's Saga of the Skolian Empire has quietly become one of the most interesting, ambitious, and popular science-fiction series since Dune, captivating readers with its complex universe, its diverse cast of sympathetic characters, and its imaginative blend of hard SF, future history, military SF, space opera, family saga, and romance."
--Romantic Times

"Asaro has quickly gained a reputation as a writer of very colorful space operas. Her novels are notable for such typical space operatic virtues as (literally) larger-than-life heroes and heroines, truly bad villains, extravagant technology, star-spanning empires, and action-filled plots. I hope that description doesn't seem dismissive: On the contrary, Asaro really does make virtues of each of these characteristics. In addition, her novels feature significant romance subplots . . . first-rate rip-roaring adventures."--SF Site

"This latest installment blends dynastic intrigue with theoretical physics to create a story that will appeal to fans of hard SF as well as grand-scale storytelling."
--Library Journal on Spherical Harmonic

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Tor Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0765306387
• ISBN 13: 9780765306388
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 304