Title: Catch the Lightning

Title: Catch the Lightning Title Record # 5696
Author: Catherine Asaro
Date: 1996-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Saga of the Skolian Empire
Series Number: 14
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Note: The second Skolian novel written, it takes place far into the future and almost entirely in a parallel universe. Gives glimpses into its "past" that have yet to be revealed in the "real-time" storyline. Readers know that the exiles on Prism are still lost (presumed dead), and that the war-that-doesn't-exist-anymore between ESComm and ISC is still raging 50 years later.

Synopsis: Althor (Dyhianna's son, not her nephew) and his Jag are somehow sidelined to an alternate 1980s Earth where he rescues (and is rescued by) 'Tina Pulovik, who may be the answer to the prayers of an entire Universe. And a generation-long betrayal is exposed but must still be hidden.

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Variant Titles

Year	Title
2014^ⓘLIGHTNING STRIKE, Book I is an expanded and revised version (along with LIGHTNING STRIKE, Book II) of her novel CATCH THE LIGHTNING. as of December 2018, Lightning Strike Book II has not been released.	Lighning Strike I

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Preliminary Nominees	1998 Nebula	Novel

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Catch the Lightning	1996-12-00	Catherine Asaro	Tor	0-312-86043-9	$24.95^?$: US dollar	352	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Peter Bollinger
Catch the Lightning	1997-10-00	Catherine Asaro	Tor	0-812-55102-8	$5.99^?$: US dollar	309	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	Peter Bollinger
Catch the Lightning	2002-08-01	Catherine Asaro	Blackstone Audio	0-7861-9060-4	$29.95^?$: US dollar		audio MP3 CD^?Compact disc with mp3-encoded audio tracks	novel	Peter Bollinger
Catch the Lightning	2002-08-01	Catherine Asaro	Blackstone Publishing	0-7861-9445-6	$72.00^?$: US dollar		audio CD^?Compact disc with standard audio tracks	novel	Peter Bollinger
Catch the Lightning	2002-08-01	Catherine Asaro	Blackstone Publishing	0-7861-2303-6	$56.95^?$: US dollar		audio cassette^?Cassette tape	novel	Peter Bollinger
Catch the Lightning	2004-02-19	Catherine Asaro	Blackstone Audio		$23.07^?$: US dollar		digital audio download^?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.	novel	Peter Bollinger
Catch the Lightning	2007-08-00	Catherine Asaro	Tor	978-0-8125-5102-0	$6.99^?$: US dollar	309	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	Peter Bollinger
Catch the Lightning	2007-08-01	Catherine Asaro	Tor	978-0-7653-8116-3	$18.99^?$: US dollar	320	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	Peter Bollinger
Catch the Lightning	2013-08-01	Catherine Asaro	Blackstone Audio	978-1-4708-9101-5	$32.95^?$: US dollar		audio CD^?Compact disc with standard audio tracks	novel	Peter Bollinger
Lighning Strike I	2014-04-03	Catherine Asaro	Spectrum Literary Agency		$4.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel

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Reviews

Review by Gary K. Wolfe (1996) in Locus, #431 December 1996
Review by Joe Mayhew (1997) in Absolute Magnitude, Fall/Winter 1997