Eleanor Arnason est une auteure américaine de science-fiction dont les œuvres explorent fréquemment le changement et le conflit culturels. Ses personnages se retrouvent souvent en marge de la société, incapables ou réticents à se conformer à ses règles établies. Arnason se penche sur la manière dont les individus naviguent dans des structures sociales complexes et gèrent leur altérité. Sa prose est reconnue pour son analyse perspicace de la psychologie humaine et des dynamiques sociales.
For 50 years the humans have been in conflict with humanoid aliens, now they are conducting diplomatic peace talks but they are complicated by racial and sexual jobs, aggressive attitudes, and misunderstood customs
In ''Big Green Mama Falls in Love,'' Big Green Mama duplicates herself and discovers just how life-threatening a Big-Mama-sized case of love can be while the skwork learn that one cannot train a microbe to be patriotic. In ''Big Red Mama in Time and Morris, Minnesota,'' Big Red Mama is annoyed big-time when she discovers the Cretaceous has been invaded by an obnoxious human who has stolen a time-machine and decides that some information probably shouldn't be free, particularly since as a group, humans underestimated the damage they did and rarely took responsibility for anything. On the basis of these stories, the one thing you can say for sure is that Big Mamas' lives are never dull.