Title: Primary Inversion

Title: Primary Inversion Title Record # 4794
Author: Catherine Asaro
Date: 1995-03-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Saga of the Skolian Empire
Series Number: 5
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

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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Translations

Year	Language	Title
2003^ⓘTranslated by Xavier Spinat	French	Point d'inversion

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
10	1996 Locus	Best First Novel
Nomination	1996 Crook	Compton Crook Award (Balticon - Best 1st Novel)
Preliminary Nominees	1996 Nebula	Novel

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Primary Inversion	1995-03-00	Catherine Asaro	Tor	0-312-85764-0	$21.95^?$: US dollar	317	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Ron Walotsky
Primary Inversion	1996-05-00	Catherine Asaro	Tor	0-812-55023-4	$5.99^?$: US dollar	369	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Ron Walotsky
Primary Inversion	1996-05-15	Catherine Asaro	Tor	0-765-33606-5	$13.99^?$: US dollar	386	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Ron Walotsky
Primary Inversion	2008-03-05	Catherine Asaro	Baen (Baen Free Library)	978-0-8125-5023-8	$0.00^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Primary Inversion	2012-11-00	Catherine Asaro			$5.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel	Michael Michelitsch
Primary Inversion	2012-11-28	Catherine Asaro	Spectrum Literary Agency	978-1-62578-045-4	$5.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel	Michael Michelitsch
Primary Inversion	2013-07-01	Catherine Asaro	Blackstone Audio	978-1-4708-8977-7	$29.95^?$: US dollar		digital audio download^?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.	novel	Ron Walotsky
Primary Inversion	date unknown	Catherine Asaro	Tor	0-812-55023-4	$6.99^?$: US dollar	369	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Ron Walotsky
Primary Inversion	date unknown	Catherine Asaro	Tor	0-812-55023-4	$6.99^?$: US dollar	369	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Ron Walotsky
Primary Inversion	date unknown	Catherine Asaro	Tor	0-812-55023-4	$5.99^?$: US dollar	369	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Ron Walotsky

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Reviews

Review by Thomas A. Easton [as 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
Review [French] by Tom Clegg (2003) in Galaxies, #29
Review [French] by Sylvie Burigana (2003) in Bifrost, #31