As soon as I found it, realized it was out there, I just fell in love with it.

''I started reading science fiction when I was six. (My dad didn't expect to find iridium at all.) It was neat growing up around them. Luis Alvarez, Walter Alvarez, my dad Frank Asaro, and Helen Michel all helped to postulate that either an asteroid or a comet hit the earth and killed off everything. He's the one who found the iridium anomalies in the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary. ''I grew up submerged in science, because my dad was a scientist at the Lawrence Radiation Lab in Berkeley. Her novella ''Aurora in Four Voices'' ( Analog 12/98) was both a Hugo and Nebula nominee.Īsaro is married to NASA astrophysicist John Kendall Cannizzo, and they have one daughter, Cathy. Her new book is The Veiled Web, a non-series thriller, and the next will be Ascendant Sun, in the ''Skolian Empire'' series. Tor published her first novel, Primary Inversion, in 1995, introducing the ''Skolian Empire'' saga which continued in Catch the Lightning (1996) – winner of the 1997 Sapphire Award for best SF romance and the UTC Award, Nebula nominee The Last Hawk (1997), and The Radiant Seas (1998). She also edited and published her own fanzine, Mindsparks, in the early '90s. Her first professional sale appears to be the novelette ''Dance in Blue'' for anthology Christmas Forever (1993), edited by David Hartwell. She left in 1990 to establish Molecudyne Research and spend most of her time as a freelance SF novelist. In 1987, she started teaching physics at Kenyon College. in physics in 1983, and a Ph.D in chemical physics in 1985. in theoretical chemical physics at UCLA in 1978, and went on to Harvard, where she got an M.A. (excerpted from Locus Magazine, November 1999)Ĭatherine Asaro was born sometime in the late '50s (she wouldn't reveal just when) in Oakland, California. C A T H E R I N E A S A R O : Dancing Equations

The Phoenix Code by Catherine Asaro