Short Story
This Tragic Glass
- by Elizabeth Bear
- in Sci Fiction, 7 April 2004
In a world where time travel can retrieve past historical figures, Dr. Satyavati Brahmaptura (now a colleague of poet John Keats) receives permission from the History Department to nab Christopher Marlowe in order to prove that he was really a she.
The genderbot still thinks Kit Marlowe was a girl. I reentered everything.
