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- Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia
- Book
- 1996
- Published by: Wesleyan University Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- On Delany the Magician: A Foreword
- pp. ix-xii
- 1. Der Satz
- pp. 1-20
- 2. Solvable Games
- pp. 21-44
- 3. Avoiding Kangaroos
- pp. 45-116
- 4. La Geste d'Helstrom
- pp. 117-134
- 5. Idylls in Outer Mongolia
- pp. 135-184
- 6. Objective Knowledge
- pp. 185-234
- 7. Tiresias Descending
- pp. 235-278
- Appendix A: From The Triton Journal
- pp. 279-290
Additional Information
ISBN
9780819571953
Related ISBN(s)
9780819562982
MARC Record
OCLC
48139751
Pages
326
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No