The main character in the short story “Dream of the Third Sun” is Monica Ducat, a former starship captain. Monica’s parents had been bio-fuel engineers, inventing the rocket fuel that first made space exploration affordable. Monica never dreamed her parents’ invention would be responsible for her getting stranded on a planet with three suns, and strange alien creatures that came out only at night. What kind of short story is “Dream of the Third Sun”? science fiction fable fantasy adventure