The Ruby Dice

Primary Inversion

By: Catherine Asaro
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No

The Skolian Empire rules a third of the civilized galaxy through its mastery of faster-than-light communication. But war with the rival empire of the Traders seems imminent, a war that can only lead to slavery for the Skolians or the destruction of both sides. Destructive skirmishes have already occurred, and a desperate attempt must be made to... Read more »

Catch the Lightning

By: Catherine Asaro
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No

When a young girl from Earth falls in love with a handsome stranger, she becomes a pawn in an interstellar war.

In the distant future, the Skolian Empire rules one third of the human galaxy, and is the most powerful of all. For the ruling family has the power of telepathy, and through it, the ability to communicate faster than light, across... Read more »

The Radiant Seas

By: Catherine Asaro
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 15 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No

In the continuing saga that began with the acclaimed Primary Inversion, star-crossed lovers Sauscony and Jaibriol, each the heir to an interstellar empire, become entangled again in the machinations of the Skolian Empire. Having faked their own deaths and secretly married, they are beginning to pick up what's left of their lives in exile on a... Read more »

The Last Hawk

By: Catherine Asaro
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 13 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No

Catherine Asaro, a physicist who combines believable hard science with first-rate storytelling, exploded onto the science fiction scene with her stellar debut novel, Primary Inversion. Now, she brings us the third tale of the Skolian Empire, which AudioFile calls “a classic tale of power and conflict, with a twist.”

When Kelric, a scion of the... Read more »

Ascendant Sun

By: Catherine Asaro
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 12 hours
Abridged: No

Ascendant Sun is the direct sequel to The Last Hawk, in which Kelric, heir to the Skolian Empire, crash landed his fighter on the Restricted planet of Coba and was imprisoned by the powerful mistresses of the great estates. After eighteen years of living in their gilded cage, Kelric finally made his escape.

Kelric returns to Skolian space, only... Read more »

The Quantum Rose

By: Catherine Asaro
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 13 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No

The Quantum Rose is the story of Kamoj Argali, the young ruler of an impoverished province on the backward planet Balumil. To keep her people from starving, she has agreed to marry Jax Ironbridge, the boorish and brutal ruler of the prosperous neighboring province. But before they can be wed, a mysterious stranger from a distant planet arrives... Read more »

Spherical Harmonic

By: Catherine Asaro
Narrated by: Liza Kaplan
Length: 14 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No

Catherine Asaro combines her diverse talents to blend hard science fiction and heartrending romance into a sweeping epic known as the Saga of the Skolian Empire. This is her trademark series. Ever since Primary Inversion, her very first novel, this series has continued to grow, building a significant readership and receiving widespread... Read more »

The Moon's Shadow

By: Catherine Asaro
Narrated by: Dennis Holland
Length: 12 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No

At the age of seventeen the young nobleman named Jaibriol Qox becomes ruler of a vast galactic empire—and loses everything he has ever valued. Born of a clandestine liaison between a renegade daughter of the Skolian Imperialate and a scion of the genetically engineered Eubian Traders, Jai Qox grew up in exile, unaware of the powers that coursed... Read more »

Skyfall

By: Catherine Asaro
Narrated by: Suzanne Weintraub
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No

A grand adventure, the rebirth of the Skolian Empire, and the romance that commenced this saga. Eldrinson Valdoria is a bard and leader on the planet Skyfall, a world with a culture considered primitive by the starflung civilization of the Imperialate. As adept with a sword as he is with a ballad, he is also an undiscovered telepath of great... Read more »

Schism

By: Catherine Asaro
Narrated by: Suzanne Weintraub
Length: 13 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No

Schism (Triad, Book I) is the tenth novel in Catherine Asaro’s multiple-award-winning Skolian saga, and represents an excellent entry point into the series. An epic story of how the Ruby Dynasty reached maturity, Triad, divided into two books, reveals how a war of galactic proportions first explodes between two great empires.Schism is how it all... Read more »

The Final Key

By: Catherine Asaro
Narrated by: Suzanne Weintraub
Length: 12 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No

The Final Key is the completion of the duology Triad, which began with the novel Schism, and which reveals the epic story of how a war of galactic proportions first exploded between two great empires and how the Ruby Dynasty reached maturity. Schism ended with the Skolian Empire torn asunder by personal conflict within the royal family. With The... Read more »

The Ruby Dice

By: Catherine Asaro
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 16 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No

Nebula Award winner Catherine Asaro's tales of the Skolian Empire have earned tremendous acclaim and a devoted following. War between the Eubian Concord and the Skolians has devastated the galaxy before. Now another epic clash is brewing, and the leaders of both empires might be powerless to stop it. Further complicating matters, both men hide... Read more »

Diamond Star

By: Catherine Asaro
Narrated by: Andy Paris
Length: 21 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No

Two-time Nebula Award winner Catherine Asaro takes her immensely popular Skolian Empire saga to new heights. The renegade son of the Ruby Dynasty, Del prefers rock music to interstellar politics. His singing career has recently gained momentum on Earth, which has an uneasy relationship with his family's empire. But with intergalactic tensions... Read more »

Carnelians

By: Catherine Asaro
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 16 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No

Revered SF novelist Catherine Asaro has twice won the coveted Nebula Award. In Carnelians, the Eubian empire and Skolian Imperialate have forged a peace treaty. But when an explosive pop anthem sweeps across the civilizations, unrest breaks out, and renewed warfare threatens to shatter the fragile peace. "Asaro's Skolian saga is now nearly as... Read more »