The Moon's Shadow (39 page)
Authors: Catherine Asaro
Tags: #Fiction, #Science Fiction, #Space Opera
| circa 4000 BC | Group of humans moved from Earth to Raylicon |
| circa 3600 BC | Ruby Dynasty begins |
| circa 3100 BC | Raylicans launch first interstellar flights; rise of Ruby Empire |
| circa 2900 BC | Ruby Empire declines |
| circa 2800 BC | Last interstellar flights; Ruby Empire collapses… |
| circa AD 1300 | Raylicans begin to regain lost knowledge |
| 1843 | Raylicans regain interstellar flight |
| 1866 | Rhon genetic project begins |
| 1871 | Aristos found Eubian Concord (aka Trader Empire) |
| 1881 | Lahaylia Selei born |
| 1904 | Lahaylia Selei founds Skolian Imperialate |
| 2005 | Jarac born |
| 2111 | Lahaylia Selei marries Jarac |
| 2119 | Dyhianna Selei born |
| 2122 | Earth achieves interstellar flight |
| 2132 | Allied Worlds of Earth formed |
| 2144 | Roca born |
| 2169 | Kurj born |
| 2203 | Roca marries Eldrinson Althor Valdoria |
| 2204 | Eldrin Jarac Valdoria born; Jarac dies; Kurj becomes Imperator |
| 2206 | Althor Izam-Na Valdoria born |
| 2209 | Havyrl (Vyrl) Torcellei Valdoria born |
| 2210 | Sauscony (Soz) Lahaylia Valdoria born |
| 2219 | Kelricson (Kelric) Garlin Valdoria born |
| 2223 | Vyrl marries Lilly (“Stained Glass Heart”) |
| 2237 | Jaibriol II born |
| 2240 | Soz meets Jato Stormson (“Aurora in Four Voices”) |
| 2241 | Kelric marries Admiral Corey Majda |
| 2243 | Corey assassinated (“Light and Shadow”) |
| 2258 | Kelric crashes on Coba ( The Last Hawk ) |
| early 2259 | Soz meets Jaibriol ( Primary Inversion ) |
| late 2259 | Soz and Jaibriol go into exile ( The Radiant Seas ) |
| 2260 | Jaibriol III born (aka Jaibriol Qox Skolia) |
| 2263 | Rocalisa Qox Skolia born; Althor Izam-Na Valdoria meets Coop (“Soul of Light”) |
| 2268 | Vitar Qox Skolia born |
| 2273 | del-Kelric Qox Skolia born |
| 2274 | Radiance War begins (also called Domino War) |
| 2276 | Traders capture Eldrin. Radiance War ends |
| 2277–8 | Kelric returns home ( Ascendant Sun ); Dehya coalesces ( Spherical Harmonic ); Kamoj and Vyrl meet ( The Quantum Rose ); Jaibriol III becomes emperor of Eube ( The Moon’s Shadow ) |
| 2279 | Althor Vyan Selei born |
| 2287 | Jeremiah Coltman trapped on Coba (“A Roll of the Dice”) |
| 2328 | Althor Vyan Selei meets Tina Santis Pulivok ( Catch the Lightning ) |
C
atherine Asaro grew up near Berkeley, California. She earned her Ph.D. in Chemical Physics and her M.A. in Physics, both from Harvard, and a B.S. with Highest Honors in Chemistry from UCLA. Among the places she has done research are the University of Toronto, the Max Planck Institut für Astrophysik in Germany, and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. A former ballet and jazz dancer, she founded the Mainly Jazz Dance program at Harvard and was a principal dancer and artistic director of Mainly Jazz and the Harvard University Ballet. Her husband is John Kendall Cannizzo, the proverbial rocket scientist. They have one daughter, a ballet dancer and mathematics enthusiast.
Catherine Asaro has also written
Primary Inversion, Catch the Lightning, The Last Hawk, The Radiant Seas, Ascendant Sun, The Quantum Rose,
and
Spherical Harmonic,
all part of the Skolian Saga, and
The Veiled Web
and
The Phoenix Code,
near-future science fiction. Her work has won numerous awards, including the Nebula for
The Quantum Rose.
She can be reached by e-mail at
[email protected]
and on the Web at
http:// www.sff.net/people/asaro/
. To receive updates on her releases, please email the above address.