Primary Inversion

- A tale of the Ruby Dynasty/Skolian Empire. -

Two interstellar empires are locked in seemingly endless conflict: the Skolian Empire, with its well-trained Jagernauts and faster-than-light communications maintained by members of its Ruby Dynasty, against the Eubian Empire, which thrives on slavery and whose elites are known for their cruelty.
 
Soz Valdoria, a Jagernaut and member of the Ruby Dynasty, is attracted to her supposed "enemy" Jabriol, the son of the ruler of the Eubian empire, or Traders. With hostile forces seeking their capture or death, Soz and Jabriol must work out their own -- and hopefully their empires' -- salvation.
 
Called by Booklist "one of the best SF first novels in years", Kirkus Reviews praised PRIMARY INVERSION: "An imaginative debut that takes off at a frantic pace, with dazzling technology, stirring battles and mental hijinks ... plenty of energy and invention."

(Lightning Strike, Book I and Lightning Strike, Book II are the same story as told in Catch the Lightning, but substantially rewritten and expanded for the eBook form.

The eBook version of Primary Inversion is rewritten from the original and is considered the best version.)

On PRIMARY INVERSION:
"One of the best SF first novels in years."
- Booklist

“Fast, smart, speculative and full of theorizing about faster-than-light drive, PRIMARY INVERSION is a stellar debut.”
- Los Angeles Daily News
 
“An unusually masterful first novel.  Physicist Asaro combines hard speculative science and first-rate storytelling.”
- Booklist
 
“Hard science fiction fans can rejoice—the next superstar is here.”
- Romantic Times

on the Skolian Empire series:
"One of the major series in the genre."
- SF Chronicle

"Asaro's Skolian saga is now nearly as long and in many ways as compelling as DUNE, if not more so."
- Booklist

"Catherine Asaro brings the feel of science back into science fiction."
- Donald M. Kingsbury, author of COURTSHIP RITE and PSYCHOHISTORICAL CRISES.

"Known for her brilliance at combining science, adventure and riveting characterization, Catherine Asaro breaks new territory..." 
- Mary Jo Putney, New York Times bestselling author of THE WILD CHILD and THE RAKE

"Sound characterization, straightforward plotting, abundant world building detail, and almost as much humor."
- Booklist

"Thoughtful and imaginative..."
- Diana Gabaldon

On CATCH THE LIGHTNING
 
“CATCH THE LIGHTNING is space adventure for the 21st century… This book crackles with ideas.”
- Nancy Kress, Nebula Award winner
 
“Catherine Asaro keeps the wonders tumbling along at the level of sheer delight.”
- Absolute Magnitude

On Catherine Asaro

"Readers seeking the harmonious meld of hard SF's rigor and human chemistry's heat should read Catherine Asaro's fiction."
- SciFi Weekly
 
"Asaro's portrait of interstellar intrigue, weird socio-political customs and galactic history has come to approach the neighborhood of such classics as Frank Herbert's DUNE series."
- SciFi.com
 
“Asaro, who’s a physicist, offers an intelligent exploration of possible links between telepathy and quantum physics and informs many of the scenes between lovers with power and tenderness.”
- Publishers Weekly
 
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