Triton
Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780553025675 (0553025678)
ASIN: 553025678
Publish date: 1976
Publisher: Bantam
Pages no: 370
Edition language: English
Category:
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
American,
Feminism,
Speculative Fiction,
Dystopia,
Glbt,
Queer,
Gay,
Gender
Stylistically, this felt close to the Heinlein that I've read, with lots of free love, gender bending, libertarianism, communal relationships, and non-Terran humans at odds with Earth. Plus lots and lots of infodumping--not a chapter went by without several pages of the classic sf "as you know Bob....
Delany's "ambiguous heterotopia" is set in a society in which all manner of alternate lifestyles are not just embraced but codified into laws for the numerous subcultures which citizens can select from and join. The main character is a deeply conflicted man full of psychological issues. A chance en...
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