Condition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. May show signs of wear such as:
• Shelf wear or scuffing on the cover
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Cover art: Julie Bell
Blurb: “
The Saga of the Skolian Empire is Catherine Asaro's trademark SF series. It chronicles the lives of the members of the ruling family of the Empire in the distant interstellar future, weaving a fine blend of action, romance, and hard science fiction.
The Quantum Rose is the story of Kamoj
Argali, the young ruler of an impoverished
province on a backward planet. To keep her people from starving, she has agreed to marry Jax Ironbridge, ruler of the prosperous neigh-
Kamoj is forced into marriage with a mysterious stranger from a distant planet, throwing her world into utter chaos.
"Catherine Asaro has quickly gained a reputation as a writer of very colorful space operas.
Her novels are notable for such typical space operatic virtues as (literally) larger-than-life heroes and heroines, truly bad villains, extravagant technology, star-spanning empires, and action-filled plots.
I hope that description
doesn't seem dismissive: on the contrary, Asaro really does make virtues of each of these characteristics. In addition, her novels feature significant romance subplots." —SFSite.com