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Original Title:	Triton
ISBN:	0553025678 (ISBN13: 9780553025675)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Nebula Award Nominee for Novel (1976), James Tiptree Jr. Award Nominee for Classics (1995), Graoully d'Or for Roman étranger (1978)

Triton

Samuel R. Delany

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 369 pages

Rating: 3.71 | 1786 Users | 176 Reviews

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The human race has colonized the outer satellites. One of them is Triton, moon of Neptune, where the ideals of universal prosperity are possible. Yet Earth threatens war…

Within this strange climate of complete utopia and certain doom, Bron Helstrom seeks passion and purpose in a gypsy woman whose wisdom and power will forever reverse his life.

THE SPIKE: The woman he loves — a wandering playwright from Ganymede.

SAM: The man he admires — the handsome, astute chief foreign officer crippled by the responsibility of vast power.

LAWRENCE: His confessor — the master of strategic games.

CHARO and WINDY: The players — cosmic minstrels of the far future.

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Title	:	Triton
Author	:	Samuel R. Delany
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	1st, Y2567
Pages	:	Pages: 369 pages
Published	:	February 1976 by Bantam
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Science Fiction Fantasy. Speculative Fiction

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Ratings: 3.71 From 1786 Users | 176 Reviews

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Trouble on Triton is supposed to inhabit a utopian (heterotopic) future when Earth is no longer the only hospitable planet, where personal expression has evolved through a widened acceptance of differing sexualities, and gender takes on radical new perspectives. I appreciated the gender exploration, but found it extremely hard to sympathize with the protagonist, Bron Helstrom. As a teenager, Bron was a (legal) male prostitute, but well into adulthood, he seems homophobic. This wasnt the worse of

DNF at 83 pages. So far I haven't found a plot in this book, which could have been its redeeming feature for me. I didn't connect with the characters, the world or the writing style. Perhaps this wasn't a good place to start with Delaney.

Everyone talks about how this is a political or cultural or social exploration novel, and that's all true, but what fascinates me about it is how incredibly PSYCHOLOGICAL it is. The cultural and social stuff is pretty simple - Samuel Delany has created here an honest-to-goodness utopia, a world in which everyone can essentially be anyone they want to be. You're a woman who wants to be a male homosexual? No problem. There's a community for you. You want to have scales and a tail? No problem.

I feel like of all the books that made up Radical Utopias, this one took the longest for me to read. I don't know if that's realistic or not, but it was definitely the longest, and at times, driest. Which is hard to admit since I felt the first book in the anthology, Walk to the End of the World, was plenty dry.I read Dhalgren a few years ago and it blew my mind. I have slowly been collecting Delany's novels, but went through the process realizing his other books might not touch me as deeply.

(sppoilerzzz)I feel very weird about this book! I love a lot of it, but in the end it felt just too terrible to spend this much time with bron--i kind of would have been elated with the book just ending after the spike's letter arrives and a Big Event happens in the war? the subsequent gender stuff is very gratifying to me on one level and very depressing on another: i appreciate that pains were taken to establish that bron's Gender Journey is not typical, but that also kind of grosses me out.

I taught this novel for a course in Queer and Trans Lit this semester -- it's a thick novel as all of Delany's are, thick with social observations and insights, and was challenging for some students, esp those who haven't read much sf; nonetheless it spurred terrific convos, especially in relation to Giovanni's Room (both novels interrogate toxic white masculinity) and Orlando (ie. thinking about the possibilities sff affords for thinking through power and oppression, esp i/r/t gender and

Lordy, could not deal. Usually I try to give a book 100 pages, but like 60 pages in there's a good 2-page description of a *board game* and that was pretty much the end for me. Add to that the constantCONSTANTinterruptions (there was not a quote without an em dash severing it), and the book was approaching unreadable. I think Delany's just not for me.I picked this up because it was mentioned as a response to The Dispossessed in Among Others, but I don't think I made it to the part where it had