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FROM: Meg Justus <[removed]@pcl.lib.wa.us>
REC'D: 3/2/02, 12:35 PM

>In response to Meg Justus's query, if you like strong heroes and >heroines,
you might like to try Catherine Asaro's books. There's the 7->volume (and
counting) Skolian Empire Saga, which includes The Quantum >Rose.

Thank you, Binnie. In what order should they be read?

Meg Justus
Pierce County Library

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 3/9/02, 8:18 AM

Sorry to take so long to respond to Meg Justis's query on the correct reading
order for Catherine Asaro's books (i.e., The Skolian Saga books).

Please note that the order of reading is NOT the order in which the books
were published. And Catherine also notes that several of the books & the
novella can really be read in any order.

Let me know if there are any Q's.

According to Catherine, the order is as follows:

"Aurora in Four Voices" novella (Analog, December 1998) (Prequel; can be read
in any order)

Primary Inversion

The Radiant Seas

The Last Hawk (can be read in any order)

Ascendant Sun

The Quantum Rose (can be read in any order)

Spherical Harmonic

Catch the Lightning (can be read in any order) - begins 75 years after
Primary Inversion.

The Moon's Shadow (due out February 2003)


Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: "Bessie Makris" <[removed]@acpl.lib.in.us>
REC'D: 3/9/02, 9:42 AM

I think Primary Inversion and Radiant Seas should be read in that order followed by Last Hawk and Ascendant Sun (in that order). Events in those four books are taking place concurrently Spherical Harmonic immediately follows in the chronology.

Bessie Makris
Allen County Public Library
P.O. Box 2270
Fort Wayne, IN 46802

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>>> [removed]@aol.com 03/09/02 09:05AM >>>
Sorry to take so long to respond to Meg Justis's query on the correct reading
order for Catherine Asaro's books (i.e., The Skolian Saga books).

Please note that the order of reading is NOT the order in which the books
were published. And Catherine also notes that several of the books & the
novella can really be read in any order.

Let me know if there are any Q's.

According to Catherine, the order is as follows:

"Aurora in Four Voices" novella (Analog, December 1998) (Prequel; can be read
in any order)

Primary Inversion

The Radiant Seas

The Last Hawk (can be read in any order)

Ascendant Sun

The Quantum Rose (can be read in any order)

Spherical Harmonic

Catch the Lightning (can be read in any order) - begins 75 years after
Primary Inversion.

The Moon's Shadow (due out February 2003)


Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: Meg Justus <[removed]@pcl.lib.wa.us>
REC'D: 3/9/02, 12:43 PM

Thank you, Binnie.

Meg Justus
Pierce County Library

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