Proud Man
by Katharine Burdekin
An androgynous traveler—initially known as the Person, then as Verona, and finally as
Gifford Verona— communicates with the subhumans called Englishmen about a time
thousands of years in their future.
To return to my dream, this person thought that either you or I should go among these
subhumans, and yoiu, though willing to go, were a shade less willing than I. So it was
decided that I was to go, and when I asked this person, who had been thinking to us about
these creatures, how I should come to them, seeing that they were either on another
planet or in another time, the way thither was made clear to me, for all I had to do was
to wish to be there with them, and there, wherever or whenever it was, I should be.
I am much inclined to think it was not on another planet, but on the same planet in another time.
Proud Man by Katharine Burdekin (Boriswood,
1934).