Product Description: Big Mama Stories collects five edgy, satirical tales of wily tricksters for the 21st century. 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...read more

Product Description: Spanning thirty years, this volume collects six stories, one poem, and a WisCon Guest of Honor speech. In the richly ironic ''Warlords of Saturn s Moons,'' first published in 1974, a cigar-puffing woman writes space-opera while the drama of real-life inner-city Detroit goes on around her; ''The Grammarian's Five Daughters'' offers a playful explication of the uses of the parts of speech; ''A Ceremony of Discontent'' takes a humorous approach to a modern-day feminist problem; and Arnason's wise, earthy tales of hwarhath serve up new myths explaining the origins of the world and morality (among other things)...read more

When a human scientist discovers the existence of an alien people whose rich civilization surpasses that of Earth, the scientists of Earth begin a mission of exploration

Searching for a worthy foe to conquer, a warlike alien race encounters humankind, leading to years of skirmishing that might be solved by diplomacy, except that there is a human traitor among the aliens

Earthborn Lixia, a vistor from her damaged planet, and Nia, a primitive outcast, exiled for committing a transgression unheard of in her society, unite by circumstance and travel together across a perilous continent. Reprint.

Driven by her own curiosity, Lixia, an earthborn anthropologist, follows a female outcast called Nia across a strange and perilous world. Reprint.

When Belinda Hernshaw learns that she is supposed to marry a native prince on the planet New Hope, she plans her escape with the help of the old family robot

After discovering her true heritage as a Bear Child, a daughter of the ancients, Minnesota housewife Esperance Olson is given the task of saving the world from sinister forces