DELANY, Samuel R.
Trouble on Triton

First published in 1976, this novel was first conceived as a response to Ursula K. LeGuin’s The Dispossessed, shifting the perspective from utopia to heterotopia, pace Foucault. Trouble on Triton is an astonishing comedy of manners, a satire in a neo-Swiftian sense, in which we follow Bron Helstrom, “the happily reasonable man” who falls in love with an experimental theatre genius and ends up questioning his own identity while a new type of war looms on the Solar System. Wait, did I mention the jokes about Fluxus and performance art? The hard-scifi “Remarks on Toward the Modular Calculus” in appendix? The foreword by Kathy Acker??

Published by Wesleyan University Press, 1996
Science/Fiction / Sex / Performance