Captain Sisko is seized by vivid, recurring visions of Benny Russell, a Black science-fiction writer in 1950s New York fighting to get his stories about a space station commander into print despite his editors' prejudice, in Steven Barnes's novelization of one of Deep Space Nine's most acclaimed episodes. Barnes, himself a science-fiction novelist, adapts a story about the cost of imagining a better future.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources