Bookbot

Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia

Book rating

3.8(1732)Add rating

More about the book

In a story as exciting as any science fiction adventure written, Samuel R. Delany's 1976 SF novel, originally published as Triton, takes us on a tour of a utopian society at war with . . . our own Earth! High wit in this future comedy of manners allows Delany to question gender roles and sexual expectations at a level that, 20 years after it was written, still make it a coruscating portrait of the happily reasonable man, Bron Helstrom -- an immigrant to the embattled world of Triton, whose troubles become more and more complex, till there is nothing left for him to do but become a woman. Against a background of high adventure, this minuet of a novel dances from the farthest limits of the solar system to Earth's own Outer Mongolia. Alternately funny and moving, it is a wide-ranging tale in which character after character turns out not to be what he -- or she -- seems.

Publication

Book purchase

Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia, Samuel R. Delany

Language
Released
1996
product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
(Paperback)
No longer available.
or
View another copy

Payment methods

3.8
Very Good
1732 Ratings

We’re missing your review here.