Triton
Item
Title
Triton
Creator
Samuel R. Delany
Date
1976
Subject
Utopias > Utopias / Fiction.
Triton (Satellite) > Triton (Satellite) / Fiction.
Fiction.
Fiction.
Science fiction.
Triton (Satellite) > Triton (Satellite) / Fiction.
Fiction.
Fiction.
Science fiction.
Description
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.
Publisher
Bantam Books
Relation
SciFi Corpus
Source
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006833148
Rights
Language
English
