At the very last minute, a friend of the professor’s, Richard Dorr, snuck onto the spaceship as well. I can’t tell whether I am belaboring the point—perhaps the audience here will easily accept this read of Dana Gleason. (Let’s not quibble about the science in early science fiction, okay?) “Do you realize what you are doing, Dick, in bringing war to this planet?” Dana asks him. When I finished the novella, I marveled at what I’d just read: a feminist, queer, trans, anti-colonial work of science fiction that was nearly 100 years old.