Please consider backing Catherine's kickstarter campaign to create an audiobook of her anthology Aurora in Four Voices.  Of her stories she explains:

"When my short story Light and Shadow appeared in Analog Magazine (1994), it was my first published story. It was also began The Saga of the Skolian Empire, also known as the Ruby Dynasty Series, which has grown to include at least 14 novels, plus several novellas and a number of short Stories. Roland Green at Booklist described the series: "Asaro's portrait of interstellar intrigue, weird socio-political customs and galactic history has come to approach the neighborhood of such classics as Frank Herbert's Dune series.""

I've been a fan since Primary Inversion, and if you are a fan of engaging SF by an author who knows her stuff, you won't go wrong.

BB