Overview
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.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780819562982
- ISBN-10: 081956298X
- Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
- Publish Date: July 1996
- Dimensions: 8.43 x 5.35 x 0.74 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.83 pounds
- Page Count: 326
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