Samuel R. Delany turned 75 on April 1. “Chip” to his friends (what I wouldn’t give to be part of that group!), Delany is one of the Science Fiction Writers of America Grandmasters. He has won four Nebula Awards and two Hugos (with 15 other nominations between the two awards). But he is much more than just […]
Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia
Interplanetary war, capture and escape, diplomatic intrigues that topple worlds.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.
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Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia
Interplanetary war, capture and escape, diplomatic intrigues that topple worlds.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.
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ISBN-13: | 9780819562982 |
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Publisher: | Wesleyan University Press |
Publication date: | 07/19/1996 |
Edition description: | Reprint |
Pages: | 326 |
Product dimensions: | 5.25(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.74(d) |
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