A collection that includes the Nebula Award-winning titular novella and "Light and Shadow," the story that begins the Saga of the Skolian Empire series.

In "The Spacetime Pool," recent MIT…

Ballerina Lucia del Mar has two great passions: dance, which consumes most of her waking hours, and the Internet, which brings the outside world into her tightly regimented life. These…

Kelric, a scion of the imperial family of Skolia, crash-lands on the planet of Coba. He fails to account for the matriarchy of Coba, the mistresses of the great estates…

Nebula Award-winning author Cahterine Asaro returns to an exhilarating world of magic, beauty and political unrest with the tale of a battle between duty and desire.

Ballerina Lucia del Mar has two great passions: dance, which consumes most of her waking hours, and the Internet, which brings the outside world into her tightly regimented life. These…

Kelric returns to Skolian space, only to find the Empire in control of the Allied forces of Earth. With little more than the clothes on his back, he is forced…

SCHISM ended with the Skolian Empire torn asunder by personal conflict within the royal family. With this title, the Skolian Empire comes under all-out assault from its nemesis, the Euban…