num_pages: 369
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.
language: English
title: Triton
titlecomplete: Triton
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Gender, Queer, Speculative Fiction, LGBT, Literature, Science Fiction Fantasy, Novels, Fantasy
ratings_count: 2113
awards: awardedAt: 189331200000
name: Nebula Award
category: Novel, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: James Tiptree Jr. Award
category: Classics, awardedAt: 252489600000
name: Graoully d'Or
category: Roman étranger
publisher: Bantam