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Loading... The Quantum Roseby Catherine AsaroSeries: Skolian Empire Publication Order (6), Skolian Empire Chronological Order (2277-8)
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. http://yet.org/2008/12/quantum_rose.h... (  )1   planetrobbie | Dec 28, 2008 |  This book follows the life of a young female governor in a fallen civilization and the changes that occur through interaction with technologically more advanced human beings from another planet. I enjoyed the first half of the book, which I considered to be more sci fi (and romance) than the second half, which was more fantasy and involved characters and organizations from other books in this series that I haven't read. The author was trained as a physicist, and chapter titles relate to quantum mechanics, with explanations in an epilogue. (  ) espertus | Oct 26, 2008 | This is something of a sideline to the rest of the Skolian Empire books, and defiiately plays to Asaro's Romantic side rather than the Military SF of, say, Primary Inversion or the Politics of The Moon's Shadow. Look at the cover, pure Mills & Boon. That said, there's just enough actual SF to count, IMO, and Asaro plotted everything with her particle interactions theory. The way she has some physical phenonomen at the base of her plots is amusing and one of the attractions of her work. ( ) michaelbirks | Mar 15, 2008 | bluetyson | Jan 27, 2008 | This book won the nebula award for best novel, I believe. It was a captivating book, but was more of a romance novel disguised as science fiction, which isn't bad, it's just that I am a terribly masculine fellow, and romance just isn't my bag. (  )1 KevlarRelic | Nov 7, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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The Quantum Rose is the sixth novel in the acclaimed Saga of the Skolian Empire, following the novels Primary Inversion, Catch the Lightning, The Last Hawk, The Radiant Seas, and Ascendant Sun. This intelligent, entertaining series combines space opera, hard SF, future history, military SF, and romance in a rare and potent blend. The Quantum Rose is an interplanetary adventure, but the space-opera and hard-SF elements are less prominent, as the plot focuses on a compelling and complicated love triangle, the clash of very different cultures, and an approach to war that SF has almost never considered.
A Nebula Award finalist, Catherine Asaro has won the Analog Readers' Poll, the Sapphire Award, and the Homer Award. In addition to the Saga of the Skolian Empire, she has written the near-future SF novels The Veiled Web and The Phoenix Code. --Cynthia Ward
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