Eleanor Arnason je americká autorka science fiction, ktorá sa často zameriava na kultúrne zmeny a konflikty. Jej postavy sa zvyčajne nachádzajú na okraji spoločnosti, pretože sa odmietajú prispôsobiť jej pravidlám. Arnason skúma, ako jednotlivci navigujú zložitými spoločenskými štruktúrami a ako sa vyrovnávajú s odlišnosťou. Jej próza je známa prenikavým pohľadom na ľudskú psychiku a spoločenské dynamiky.
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.