Eleanor Arnason ist eine amerikanische Science-Fiction-Autorin, die sich häufig mit kulturellem Wandel und Konflikten beschäftigt. Ihre Charaktere finden sich oft am Rande der Gesellschaft wieder, da sie unfähig oder unwillig sind, sich den etablierten Regeln anzupassen. Arnason erforscht, wie Individuen komplexe soziale Strukturen durchdringen und mit ihrer Andersartigkeit ringen. Ihre Prosa zeichnet sich durch eine aufschlussreiche Untersuchung menschlicher Psychologie und gesellschaftlicher Dynamiken aus.
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.