Scholarship and criticism on Eleanor Arnason

Brian Attebery

• "Ring of Swords: A Reappreciation", The New York Review of Science Fiction

J. Gordon.

• "Incite/On-Site/Insight: Implications of the Other in Eleanor Arnason's Science Fiction" Future Females, The Next Generation

Wendy Pearson

• "The Queer as Traitor, the Traitor as Queer: Denaturalizing Concepts of Nationhood, Species, and Sexuality", Chapter 7 in Flashes of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from The War of the Worlds Centennial, Nineteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, ed. by David Ketterer. 1998. Greenwood Press: 2004. ISBN 0313316074. pp. 77-92.

"I intend in this chapter to demonstrate the ways in which two examples of speculative fiction denaturalize Western discourses of nationhood, species, and sexuality. ... This chapter examines the roles of the two traitors, Estraven and Nicholas Sanders, in, respectively, Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and Eleanor Arnason's Ring of Swords (1993) in order to reveal how and to what extent works of speculative fiction are able to ironically replay the linkage between queerness and treachery in order to interrogate the naturalization of the concepts of nationhood, species, and, in particular, sexuality."