The book is set in 2021 and mentions holographs, memory cubes, vending robots, hovercars, VR suits, microfusion reactors and computerised nail polish as everyday things, alongside outdated tech like disks and fax machines, and one of the newest and most revolutionary things about to go on the market is a robot vacuum cleaner.

Another similarity is the implausible near-future technology. Visit her at This book reminded me a lot of something by Isaac Asimov, both in style and subject matter the story would have fit in quite well as part of his positronic robot series. She is also a theoretical physicist with a PhD in Chemical Physics from Harvard, and a jazz and ballet dancer. She performs selections from her work in a multimedia project that mixes literature, dance, and music with Greg Adams as her accompanist. She appears as a vocalist at cons, clubs, and other venues in the US and abroad, including recently as the Guest of Honor at the Denmark and New Zealand National Science Fiction Conventions. The first, Diamond Star, is the soundtrack for her novel of the same name, performed with the rock band, Point Valid.

An anthology of her short fiction titled Aurora in Four Voices is available from ISFiC Press in hardcover, and her multiple award-winning novella “The City of Cries” is also available as an eBook for Kindle and Nook.Ĭatherine has two music CD’s out and she is currently working on her third. Her novel The Quantum Rose won the Nebula® Award, as did her novella “The Spacetime Pool.” Among her many other distinctions, she is a multiple winner of the AnLab from Analog magazine and a three time recipient of the RT BOOKClub Award for “Best Science Fiction Novel.” Her most recent novel, Carnelians, came out in October, 2011.

The author of more than twenty-five books, Catherine Asaro is acclaimed for her Ruby Dynasty series, which combines adventure, science, romance and fast-paced action.

The Phoenix Code by Catherine Asaro