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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Primary Inversion, the Last Hawk, the Radiant Seas, Spherical Harmonic, Skyfall, Catch the Lightning, the Quantum Rose, the Final Key, Ascendant Sun, the Moon's Shadow, Schism, Sunrise Alley. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Primary Inversion is a science fiction novel in the Saga of the Skolian Empire by Catherine Asaro. It tells the story of how Sauscony Valdoria (Soz), Imperial Heir of the Skolians meets Jaibriol II, the throne successor of Eubians. This is the first book written by Asaro and the first in the Saga of the Skolian Empire series, published 1995. It was nominated for the 1996 Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Memorial Award and tenth place for the Locus Award for Best First Novel. The book describes Soz's life as she copes with the difficulties of being a Jagernaut, which have extensive biomech throughout their bodies allowing for enhanced speed and reaction, as well as an embedded artificial intelligence (AI). She meets Jaibriol II at a bar on the planet Delos. Later, he is captured by Soz's brother, Imperator Kurj. In a daring rescue attempt, Soz frees Jaibriol, and with the help of her father Eldrinson they escape, including an accident that appears to kill them both. They hide on an isolated planet, with only them, Soz's father and the Allied president having knowledge of their location (and survival). Some people see Primary Inversion as a hard science fiction novel, remarking in particular on her use of ideas she published in theAmerican Journal of Physics under the title "Complex Speeds and Special Relativity." Others, because of the use of psychic powers and noting that her complex speeds are not generally accepted as a plausible extension of known physics, would categorize it differently. The book, ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=51606