Year Million
Catherine's essay, "A Luminous Future," appears in the book Year Million: Science at the
Far Edge of Knowledge just released by Atlas & Co.
This volume of fourteen new, specially commissioned essays by science journalists and scholars presents a series of speculations on the most radical but well-grounded ideas they can conceive, projecting the universe as it might be in the year 1,000,000 A.D. Their collective effort—first attempted by H. G. Wells in his 1893 essay “The Man of the Year Million”—is an exploration into a barely conceivable distant future, where the authors confront far-flung possibilities, at times bordering on philosophy of science. How would the galaxy look if it were redesigned for optimal energy use and maximized intelligence? What is a universe bereft of stars?
Besides Catherine, contributors include Amara D. Angelica, Gregory Benford, Robert Bradbury, Sean M. Carroll, Anne Corwin, Dougal Dixon, Robin Hanson, Steven B. Harris, Jim Holt, Lisa Kaltenegger, Wil McCarthy, Rudy Rucker, Pamela Sargent, and George Zebrowski.
"What will humans look like in another million years (if we’re still around)? Where will we live and what will we be doing? In this collection, . . . a dozen-plus contributors let their imaginations run wild. . . .
[I]t’s all great fun."
—Publishers Weekly
ISBN: 978-0-9777433-4-6
Scientific Papers: Journals
- More on special relativity and complex speeds, NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Workshop, August 1997
- Complex speeds and special relativity," Catherine Asaro, Am. Jour. Phys. April 1996
- "Polarization Control of Branching Ratios in Photodissociation"; Catherine Asaro, Paul Brumer, and Moshe Shapiro, Phys. Rev. Let. 60, 1634 (1988)
- "Bound Vibrational Levels of the Two Lowest Singlet Sigma States of LiF"; Catherine Asaro and A. Dalgarno, Chem. Phys. Let. 118 64 (1985)
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"Stieltjes-Imaging Calculations of Photodissociation"; C. Asaro and A. Dalgarno, J. Chem. Phys. 78 200 (1983)
- "Photoexcitation and Ionization in Molecular Oxygen: Theoretical Studies of Electronic Transitions in the Discrete and Continuous Spectral Intervals"; A. Gerwer, C. Asaro, B.V. McKoy, and P.W. Langhoff, J. Chem. Phys. 72 713 (1980) This work also appeared in the conference proceedings "Photoionization of Molecular Oxygen," P.W. Langoff, A. Gerwer, C. Asaro, and B.V. McKoy, Intl. J. Quant. Chem.: Quant. Chem. Symp. 13, 645 (1979).
Scientific Papers: Presented
- "Complex Speeds and Relativity," Catherine Asaro, Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Workshop, NASA Lewis Research Center, August 12-14, paper presented.
- Predissociation in Ionic Molecules: Semiclassical Wavepacket Techniques; Catherine Asaro, Jennifer Walker Siders, and A. Dalgarno, Molecular Physics Meeting, Max Planck Institut fýr Astrophysik, 1992
- Polarization Control of Yields in Photodissociation Reactions; C. Asaro, P. Brumer, and M. Shapiro, Annual Meeting of the Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Division of the American Physical Society, 1987
- Control of Product Yields for Atoms and Ions in the Photodissociation of Lithium Fluoride; Catherine Asaro, Paul Brumer and Moshe Shapiro, Canadian Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry, 1986
- C. Asaro and A. Dalgarno, Conference on the Dynamics of Molecular Collisions 1985. Final results for LiF photodissociation using a full coupled channel calculation on the two lowest Sigma states. Preliminary results for angular distributions.
- Catherine Asaro and A. Dalgarno, Gordon Research Conference on Atomic and Molecular Interactions, 1984. Preliminary results for LiF multichannel photodissociation.
- Catherine Asaro and A. Dalgarno, 187th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, 1984. Results for vibrational structure of singlet Sigma states in alkali-halide molecules. Discussion of possible resonance structure.
- Results for Stieltjes-imaging calculations of polyatomic photodissociation with application to triatomic hydrogen; Catherine Asaro and A. Dalgarno, 34th Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference, 1981.
Essays and other nonfiction
- "Through the Apple," Catherine Asaro and John Cannizzo in Stepping Through the Stargate: Science, Archaeology and the Military in Stargate, ed. by P.N. Elrod and Roxanne Conrad, Benbella Books, 2004. ISBN 1-932100-32-6
- "The Art of Perception," Catherine Asaro, science in science fiction column, to appear in Tangent. Essay on the story "One Good Juror," by Mary Rosenblum and James Sarafin.
- "Strange Loops of Wonder," Catherine Asaro, science in science fiction column in Tangent,. An essay on the novelette "Wang's Carpets, by Greg Egan.
- Review of Proximity Zero, Catherine Asaro, SFWA Bulletin
- "Quantum Werewolves," Catherine Asaro, science in science fiction column in Tangent. Essay on the short story "L.A. in L.A.," by Barry Longyear.
- Science Fiction Age Forum, Geoffrey Landis and Catherine Asaro, Science Fiction Age
- "The Highest Adventure: An Interview with Loren Acton--Astronaut," Catherine Asaro, Pirate Writings
- Regular reviewer for Tangent magazine
- Review of The End of Fame, novel by Bill Adams and Cecil Brooks. Review by Catherine Asaro, New York Review of Science Fiction, Issue #87, November 1995
- Review of Yellow Matter, novel by William Barton. Review by Catherine Asaro, Mindsparks #3
- Review of Fossil, novel by Hal Clement. Review by Catherine Asaro, Mindsparks
- Review of "The Wild Ships of Fairny," by Carol Ives Gilman. Review by Catherine Asaro, Mindsparks
- Review of Jane Yolen story. Review by Catherine Asaro, Mindsparks
- Essay on Jaydium, novel by Deborah Wheeler. Review by Catherine Asaro, Mindsparks #3
- A Ballet of Atoms and Molecules, Mindsparks #5
- Dinosaurs and the next Millenium, Mindsparks #4
- Way Far: Imagination in Science and Fiction, Mindsparks #3
- Article on Bethe, Catherine Asaro, Mindsparks #3
- Article on particle in a circle, Catherine Asaro, Mindsparks
- Article on hourglass, Catherine Asaro, Mindsparks
- Article on crystals, Catherine Asaro, Mindsparks
- Editor and publisher Mindsparks, the Magazine of Science and Science Fiction