Eleanor Arnason : Clarkesworld Magazine – Science Fiction & Fantasy

Eleanor Arnason published her first short story in 1974. Since then she has published six novels and 40+ short stories, all science fiction or fantasy. She won the first James Tiptree Jr. Award in 1991, a Minnesota Book Award in 1993 and a Spectrum Award in 2000. In addition, she has been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon and Sidewise Awards.

“Checkerboard Planet” is one of a series of stories about location scout Lydia Duluth. One story, a short novel, has been published as Tomb of the Fathers. If all goes well, the other stories will appear in a collection in the not too distant future.

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Eleanor Arnason has the following works available at Clarkesworld:

Checkerboard Planet

FICTION by Eleanor Arnason in Issue 123 – December 2016

The system was a type G yellow dwarf with six planets. Four of the planets were gas giants, the innermost so close to its primary that it skimmed the stellar atmosphere. Dark red in color, it had neither moons nor rings. It sped around its sun, inflated by heat to an impressive size and boiling […]

The Lovers

REPRINT FICTION by Eleanor Arnason in Issue 83 – August 2013

There was a woman of the Ahara. She came of a good line within the lineage1 and grew up to be tall and broad with thick, glossy fur. Her eyes were pale gray, an unusual color in that part of the world. From childhood on, her nickname was Eyes-of-crystal. If she had a fault, it […]

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Eleanor Arnason

Checkerboard Planet

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