News & Updates

February 14, 2021

Here’s wishing you all a wonderful Valentine’s Day, whether you treat yourself, spend it with someone else, or just have a good, relaxing day.

Best always — Catherine

February 12, 2021

I’m excited! I will be appearing at Boskone this weekend. To see my schedule with details and links to the Zoom panel, click here.

ENTERING THE CYBERSPACE ERA
Friday night (tonight) 9:30 pm EST, Feb 12, 2021 (1 hour):

READING: DAVID BRIN AND CATHERINE ASARO
Saturday night, 7:00 pm EST, Feb 13, 2021 (1 hour)

I’m really looking forward to the con. I was their Hal Clement Science Speaker at Boskone 55, and I’d gone to various Boskone as a panelist in previous years. The nice part about doing cons on virtual platforms instead of in person is that folks like myself can participate from almost anywhere. Yay! I get to see many old friends, and I hope news ones as well.

For more details, click through here. →

January 30, 2021

I’ve posted Chapters 1-5 of The (new) Quantum Rose on my patreon page. I’m revising the whole book in preparation for the eBook re-release. The chapters are here:

Chapter One: patreon.com/posts/42422847
Chapter Two: patreon.com/posts/43137948
Chapter Three: patreon.com/posts/43979714
Chapter Four: patreon.com/posts/46884976
Chapter Five: patreon.com/posts/46406448

Art Credit: Julie Bell

This is the original cover for the hardcover from Tor.

more Click through For more pictures click through here. →

December 25, 2020

May you have a merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday for however you celebrate this season. Wishing you the best of New Years as well. The two cats here are myself and my daughter. 🙂

December 13, 2020

My eBook publisher likes some of the covers I designed, so they asked if I might do the cover for The City of Cries. I’ve put up all six covers from books that illustrate “The City of Cries” on my Patreon page, and we’re discussing what people like, don’t like, what works, what doesn’t work, and so on. If you are on Patreon, or feel inclined to become one of my patrons, I’d really appreciate your input! Here is the link.

The picture here shows the cover my publisher designed (which I think looks fine). That’s the one they asked if I could consider doing something new.

November 20, 2020

The 2020 Philcon is this weekend! Here is my schedule. Hope you can come!

Saturday, Nov 21, 4pm EST, Plaza 1: Drift Compatible: The Science of Neural Interface Technology

Saturday, Nov 21, 7pm EST: Reading, Catherine Asaro

Sunday, Nov 22, 4pm EST, Plaza 1: Rule of Cool vs Actual Science

November 7, 2020

SFFcon is almost upon us! Here are details about my panels.

SCIENCE IN SCI-FI
Saturday, Nov 7, at 2 PM PST, or 9 PM GMT
YouTube Link: youtu.be/QeOmO6xqZmE

HARD SCI-FI
Sunday, Nov 8, at 2 PM PST, or 9 PM GMT
YouTube Link: youtu.be/Cg0r2ZvuRCQ

• Join the Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/groups/sffcon
• Join the Conversation on Discord: discord.gg/FQ8fjuu
• Learn more at: www.sffcon.com

Click through For more details, panel details, and a list of speakers. →

October 25, 2020

I’ve posted Chapter Two of The (new) Quantum Rose on my Patreon page. You can find it by clicking here.

The original The Quantum Rose won the Nebula Award for Best novel.

Art Credit: Elena Dudina, www.deviantart.com/elenadudina/art/Rose-855925145

Click through to see the first few paragraphs of Chapter Two→

October 17, 2020

Capclave has gone virtual this year. Read all about it here: www.capclave.org/capclave/capclave20/

Here is my schedule:

Sat, Oct 17, 10:30 am: Overused Mistakes in Hard SF.
Sat, Oct 17, 3 pm: Writing Time Travel and Paradoxes.
Sun, Oct 18, 4 pm: Author reading

September 29, 2020

We have it!

The anthology The Mammoth Book of Space Wars, which includes a Skolian Empire story by Catherine, is now available from Starflight Music and Books. Click on through to explore the page and all the other books at SMB.

You can read an excerpt of Catherine’s story, The Pyre of New Day here online at the Mammoth books page.