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1881 Lahaylia Selei born
1904 Lahaylia Selei founds Skolian Imperialate
2005 Jarac born
2111 Lahaylia Selei marries Jarac
2119 Dyhianna Selei born
2122 Earth achieves interstellar flight
2132 Earth founds Allied Worlds
2144 Roca born
2169 Kurj born
2203 Roca marries Eldrinson Althor Valdoria
2204 Eldrin Valdoria born; Jarac dies; Kurj becomes Imperator; Lahaylia dies
2206 Althor Izam-Na Valdoria born
2209 Havyrl (Vyrl) Torcellei Valdoria born
2210 Sauscony (Soz) Lahaylia Valdoria born
2219 Kelricson (Kelric) Garlin Valdoria born
2237 Jaibriol II born
2240 Soz meets Jato Stormson (“Aurora in Four Voices”)
2241 Kelric marries Admiral Corey Majda
2243 Corey is assassinated (“Light and Shadow”)
2258 Kelric crashes on Coba (The Last Hawk)
early 2259 Soz meets Jaibriol (Primary Inversion)
late 2259 Soz and Jaibriol go into exile (The Radiant Seas)
2260 Jaibriol III born (aka Jaibriol Qox Skolia)
2263 Rocalisa Qox Skolia born
2268 Vitar Qox Skolia born
2273 del-Kelric Qox Skolia born
2274 Radiance War begins (also called Domino War)
2276 Traders capture Eldrin; Radiance War ends
2277 Kelric returns home (Ascendant Sun); Dehya coalesces (Spherical Harmonic)
2278 Kamoj Argali meets Vyrl (The Quantum Rose)
2279 Althor Vyan Selei born
2328 Althor Vyan Selei meets Tina Santis Pulivok (Catch the Lightning)
About the Author
Catherine Asaro grew up near Berkeley, California. She earned her Ph.D. in chemical physics and her A.M. in physics, both from Harvard, and a B.S. with highest honors in chemistry from UCLA. Among the places she has done research are the University of Toronto, the Max Planck Institute in Germany, and Harvard. She currently runs Molecudyne Research and lives in Maryland with her husband and daughter. A former dancer, she founded the Mainly Jazz Dance program at Harvard and now teaches at the Caryl Maxwell Classical Ballet, home to the Ellicott City Ballet Guild.
She has also written Primary Inversion, Catch the Lightning, The Last Hawk, The Radiant Seas, and The Quantum Rose, all set in the Skolian Empire/Ruby Dynasty universe and The Veiled Web, a near-future suspense novel. Catch the Lightning won the 1997 UTC Reader’s Choice Award for best science fiction novel and the 1997 Sapphire Award for best science fiction romance. The Last Hawk was on the final ballot for the Nebula Award. Her Ruby Dynasty novella, “Aurora in Four Voices,” the cover story of the December 1998. Analog, won the Analog Readers poll, the CompuServe Homer Award, was on both the Nebula and Hugo Award final ballots, and was listed on the Locus and Tangent Recommended Reading lists.
Catherine can be reached by E-mail at asaro@sff.net and on the Web at http://www.sff.net/people/asaro/. To be put on Catherine’s E-mail list for notices about upcoming books, please send E-mail to the above address.
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
ASCENDANTSUN
Copyright © 2000 by Catherine Asaro
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eISBN 9780312877040
First eBook Edition : November 2011
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First edition: March 2000
First mass market edition: February 2001