Trouble on Triton
Subtitle: an ambiguous heterotopia
By: Samuel R. Delany ; foreword by Kathy Acker.
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press; Published by University Press of New England
Published: 1996
Place of publication: [Middletown, Conn.]; Hanover
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
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.
Notes: Originally published: Triton. New York : Bantam Books, c1976.