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Author: Catherine Asaro
Year: 1995
Type: NOVEL
Series: Saga of the Skolian Empire
Series Number: 5
Language: English
Wikipedia Entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_Inversion
ISFDB Record Number: 4794
Note: The first written story of the Skolian Web universe, the three prequels (Skyfall, Schim, and The Final Key) take place entirely before this novel and The Last Hawk starts almost two years before this tale.
Synopsis: The story surrounding how Soz meets Jaibriol Qox II all the way up through their exile on Prism.
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Awards:
- 1996 Compton Crook Award - Compton Crook Award (Balticon - Best 1st Novel) (Nomination)
- 1996 Locus Poll Award - Best First Novel (Place: 10)
- 1996 Nebula Award - Novel (Preliminary Nominee)
Publications:
- Primary Inversion, (Mar 1995, Catherine Asaro, publ. Tor, 0-312-85764-0, $21.95, 317pp, hc) Cover: Ron Walotsky
- Primary Inversion, (May 1996, Catherine Asaro, publ. Tor, 0-812-55023-4, $5.99, 369pp, pb) Cover: Ron Walotsky - [VERIFIED]
- Primary Inversion, (May 1996, Catherine Asaro, publ. Tor, 0-765-33606-5, $13.99, 386pp, tp) Cover: Ron Walotsky
- Primary Inversion, (Mar 2008, Catherine Asaro, publ. Baen (Baen Free Library), 0-812-55023-4, $0.00, ebook) Cover: Ron Walotsky
- Primary Inversion, (Nov 2012, Catherine Asaro, $5.99, ebook) Cover: Michael Michelitsch - [VERIFIED]
- Primary Inversion, (date unknown, Catherine Asaro, publ. Tor, 0-812-55023-4, $6.99, 369pp, pb) Cover: Ron Walotsky - [VERIFIED]
- Primary Inversion, (date unknown, Catherine Asaro, publ. Tor, 0-812-55023-4, $6.99, 369pp, pb) Cover: Ron Walotsky - [VERIFIED]
- Primary Inversion, (date unknown, Catherine Asaro, publ. Tor, 0-812-55023-4, $5.99, 369pp, pb) Cover: Ron Walotsky - [VERIFIED]
Reviews:
- Review by Tom Easton (1995) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July 1995
- Review by Paul Di Filippo (1995) in Asimov's Science Fiction, October 1995
- Review by Shira Daemon (1995) in Locus, #417 October 1995
- Review by Leonard Rysdyk (1996) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, January 1996, (1996)