Triton (novel)
1976 novel by Samuel R. Delany / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia (1976) is a science fiction novel by American writer Samuel R. Delany. It was nominated for the 1976 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and was shortlisted for a retrospective James Tiptree, Jr. Award in 1995.[1] It was originally published under the shorter title Triton.
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Author | Samuel R. Delany |
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Original title | Triton |
Cover artist | Mitchell Hooks |
Language | English |
Genre | Science fiction |
Publisher | Bantam Books |
Publication date | 1976 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 369 |
ISBN | 0-553-22979-6 |
OCLC | 14151051 |
Delany has said that Trouble on Triton was written partly in dialogue with Ursula K. Le Guin's anarchist science fiction novel The Dispossessed, whose subtitle was An Ambiguous Utopia.[2] It is also loosely linked to other books by him (particularly NeveryĆ³na) in its references to "the modular calculus", a vaguely described future mathematics that would analyze analogies, fictional constructs, and possibly human personalities. The most recent U.S. edition from Wesleyan University Press (1996) has a foreword by the postmodern novelist Kathy Acker, focusing on Trouble on Triton as Orphic fiction.