Eleanor Arnason Books in Order

Edited by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath, this anthology gathers fan-written adventures featuring the original Enterprise crew. The stories extend Star Trek's universe through new situations, with introductions by cast members and contributions including Arnason and Ruth Berman's collaboration.

A dissatisfied swordsmith called Limper flees a king's service with a young dragon named Nargri. Their travels explore prejudice, craftsmanship, survival, and the desire for freedom in a world where humans have largely displaced the dragons' civilization.

Student Belinda Smith is abruptly confined by her guardian and told she must inherit a fortune and marry an alien prince. Escaping with her unwanted fiancé and an aging robot, she heads toward Earth's legendary resurrection station.

Minneapolis homemaker Esperance Olson is electrocuted by her washing machine and arrives in another world with magical abilities. Identified as the Bear King's daughter, she must confront dangerous creatures while discovering powers that include transforming into a bear.

An expedition from an ecologically damaged Earth reaches a planet whose inhabitants live under sharply divided gender roles. Anthropologist Lixia accompanies female outcast Nia across unfamiliar territory, confronting beliefs and social arrangements that challenge the visitors' assumptions.

Exobiologist Anna Perez is drawn into negotiations between humans and the alien hwarhath after meeting a human translator who has lived among them. Military suspicion and an attempted kidnapping threaten the fragile possibility of a peaceful encounter.

Merin Sul struggles to find a fulfilling life within the hwarhath's strict rules governing sexuality and proper behavior. Set in their legendary past, this story examines the personal costs of convention and the possibility of questioning inherited expectations.

Dapple wants to act, but her society tells her that women cannot become performers. Leaving for the southern continent, she challenges that restriction in a story set within the hwarhath's conservative culture and its changing traditions.

Interstellar location scout Lydia Duluth visits a planet whose social order restricts most males and keeps others enslaved for breeding. An encounter with a fugitive draws her beyond filmmaking work into the dangers of that oppressive system.

Documentary filmmaker Lydia Duluth travels to the newly colonized ocean planet Newtucket, where she encounters unexpected forms of intelligent aquatic life. Her research voyage becomes perilous as human settlement and the interests of powerful artificial intelligences complicate discovery.

Nearly omnipotent Big Ugly Mama travels through time hoping to repair harm she has accidentally inflicted on a creature called a zk. Her attempt exposes the complications behind powers that allow her to cross vast stretches of space and history.

Terry Bisson satirizes apocalyptic fiction and contemporary politics in a story about those left behind after the Rapture. The volume also includes a one-act drama involving resurrected public figures, alongside autobiographical material and an extended interview.

In an alternate history where mammoths survive on the Great Plains, a modern woman turns to DNA science to honor her Lakota heritage. The volume pairs the title novella with Arnason's reflections on science fiction and an interview.

Lydia Duluth joins an expedition to the lost homeworld of the Atch, whose history conceals uncomfortable secrets. When a rogue artificial intelligence destroys their stargate, the travelers are stranded and must confront the planet's inhabitants and troubling past.

Michael Moorcock sends chronospy Jerry Cornelius through shifting worlds involving political disasters, competing histories, and encounters across time. This volume also includes a personal reflection on London and an interview exploring Moorcock's life, writing, and cultural interests.

Cory Doctorow's novella follows a transhuman teenager through a toxic future, where a new attraction challenges his promised immortality. The volume also contains a speech on creativity and copyright, plus an interview about the author's ideas and work.

Norman Spinrad imagines a campaign to improve conditions for demons and condemned souls in Hell, helped by departed labor organizers. Alongside the satirical novella, the volume includes an essay challenging the financial practices and inequality of contemporary society.

Carter Scholz's novella follows the starship Gypsy toward Alpha Centauri with a small crew held in experimental suspended animation. Periodic awakenings reveal the hazards of their long voyage, turning an attempt to leave Earth into a precarious struggle.

Location scout Lydia Duluth visits a corporation-controlled planet whose ecosystems form enormous squares. Asked by artificial intelligences to observe the operation, she becomes entangled in corporate spying, labor organizing, and questions about the world's unusual environment.

Elizabeth Hand's title story follows scientists and artists trying to survive spreading fires in a threatened world. The collection also includes her assessment of James Tiptree Jr. and an autobiographical essay on becoming an artist.

Michael Blumlein imagines Thoreau's final days in a piece exploring the relationship between scientific inquiry and personal freedom. Informed by the author's medical background, the volume considers how observation and speculation can alter understandings of human experience.

Working for a holoplay company on the planet Grit, Lydia Duluth meets an actor's agent and begins feeling strangely ill. Her assignment turns dangerous as an apparent infection draws her toward the city's underground tunnels and disrupts her artificial-intelligence support.

This issue combines speculative fiction with essays, including Eleanor Arnason's ghost story The Graveyard. Other contributions explore family choices, rebellion, friendship, and revenge, bringing together writers such as Tananarive Due, Ellen Kushner, and Tochi Onyebuchi.

In these five Icelandic fantasies, elves, trolls, magicians, ghosts, and other uncanny beings share a world with contemporary people. Their encounters connect old folklore with modern conflicts over the environment, social justice, women’s rights, and personal freedom.

A writer in Detroit, daughters armed with grammar, and inhabitants of imagined societies question familiar assumptions about power and morality. Six stories, a poem, and a speech bring together Arnason’s explorations of everyday people, feminism, and alternative worlds.