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. 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. On the colony of Triton, the government is handicapped to the point where individual freedom is. 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. Delany presents a dystopian future wrapped up in the ideal of freedom. Delany Other Kathy Acker Wesleyan University Press Interplanetary war, capture and escape, diplomatic intrigues that topple worlds. Delany's 1976 SF novel, originally published as Triton, takes us on a tour of a utopian society at war with. Trouble on Triton HFS Books Paperback / softback 326 Pages 17.95 USD Add to Cart Electronic book text 326 Pages 13.99 USD Add to Cart Trouble on Triton An Ambiguous Heterotopia By Samuel R. “In a story as exciting as any science fiction adventure written, Samuel R.
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