The Quantum Rose, Catherine Asaro
The Quantum Rose, Catherine Asaro
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The Quantum Rose
Saga of the Skolian Empire, Book 6

Author: Catherine Asaro

Narrator: Anna Fields

Unabridged: 13 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2007

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

In this novel in the Skolian Empire series, an arranged marriage is derailed by a misunderstanding and triggers a political (and physical) battle that affects life on and off Balumil, a minor planet that has, since its colonization some 5000 years earlier, slid slowly but steadily into a decline. Winner of a Nebula Award for Best Novel in 2002.

About Catherine Asaro

Catherine Asaro, science fiction and fantasy author, grew up near Berkeley, California. She earned a PhD in chemical physics and an MA in physics, both from Harvard, and a BS with highest honors in chemistry from UCLA. The Quantum Rose won the 2001 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and The Spacetime Pool won the 2008 Nebula Award for Best Novella.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jon

Here are a few reasons why it may have won the Nebula: * The entire novel is an allegory for quantum scattering theory. This is a clever and unexpected device. * The series brings back the old "space opera" style of science fiction. (Think "Star Wars.") * The technology described in the books is muc......more

Goodreads review by Kaitlin

This novel has a really cool science fiction backdrop but a really insipid plot. In this case, you really can judge a book by its hilariously terrible cover. It’s a mostly nonsensical story about the whirlwind romance between a petite beautiful snowflake and her creepy husband (who buys her from her......more

Goodreads review by Lois

This novel is unique as it is both a play on the beauty and the beast fairytale as well an allegory on quantum scattering theory. I don't dislike Kamoj or Vryl just the book does not work entirely.......more

Goodreads review by Benjamin

About halfway through this interesting, but deeply flawed work, I said, "this would be better if the writer could write artfully." But then the plot took a sharp left into being about something else entirely, and I had to force myself to finish. The premise is good. Woman governs a small feudal provi......more

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