A Woman of the Iron People by Eleanor Arnason

In 2003, she was nominated for two Nebula Awards for her novella Potter of Bones and her short story 'Knapsack Poems'. Eleanor novel Stellar Harvest was nominated for a Hugo Award in 2000. Her main works include To the Resurrection Station and Daughter of the Bear King, A Woman of the Iron People, Dapple, Knapsack Poems, and Ring of Swords. She retired in 2009 and now writes full-time.Īrnanson is the best to know as an author, who depicts cultural change and conflict, usually from the viewpoint of characters who cannot or will not live by their own societies' rules. Since 1994, Arnanson has shifted her literary focus from novels to short fiction. She then moved back to Minneapolis–Saint Paul in 1974 and continued to work in offices, warehouses, a large art museum, and more recently, a series of small nonprofits devoted to history, peace, justice, and art. So begins a story of deepening conflict, complicated by racial and sexual roles, attitudes toward aggression, and misunderstood customs haunted by the spectre of an unimaginable war, a complex tale of the future that confirms Eleanor Arnason's place among the leading SF writers of the decade.Īrnanson started her career in 1967 as an office clerk in Brooklyn and then Detroit.

Anna becomes involved in a plot to kidnap him. As the talks begin, she learns that the alien diplomats have a translator, Nicholas Sanders, who to the astonishment of all is the first human turncoat. Biological researcher Anna Perez has a grant to study the huge, jellyfishlike aliens who live in the seas on this far planet. Humans hope to avoid interstellar war with this enigmatic race, and have set up the first diplomatic talks with them on an isolated and strategically unimportant planet. For nearly fifty years, humanity has been in conflict with a spacefaring race of warlike humanoid aliens, the only advanced and intelligent race thus far encountered in the exploration of space. Ring of Swords takes place on a larger canvas, the entire civilized galaxy in the 22nd century. Awards, and received widespread review attention. It won both the Mythopoeic Award and one of the first annual James Tiptree Jr. (Eleanor Arnason's A Woman of the Iron People 'will inevit.)Įleanor Arnason's A Woman of the Iron People 'will inevitably and appropriately be compared to the work of Ursula K.

A Woman of the Iron People by Eleanor Arnason