Wed Dec 23 2020 at 3:12:56 Usually, when I am reading a book, I either get into it and read it in a few sittings, or I get bored with it and put it aside. Trouble on Triton , which I read under the title Triton , didn t fall into this pattern, instead being a book that I enjoyed reading.but took months to finish, putting it aside for weeks at a time. It is not a typical science-fiction novel, and contains many long pages of philosophical discussion, that, while interesting, is hardly page-turning, pulse pounding suspense. I first learned of Samuel R. Delany while researching Ace Double Novels, which is what I consider the best science-fiction. Delany broke into the field by writing for Ace Doubles, and the fact that he could write in a restricted, popular format meant that he really earned his bullshit when it came to writing more niche novels like this.
Trouble on Triton
Sat Nov 13 1999 at 10:06:59
A sci-fi book by Samuel R. Delany. One of his more complex books, it takes place on Triton, the moon of Neptune, in a semi-communistic society that places subjectivity before anything else. The main character is a jerk, and eventually switches gender. The book explores a lot of questions about sexuality (the sex scenes are low-key, however). Also see Dhalgren and the Neveryon Series.
Still more desired by the narrator than an artifical social progress, is the desire to be truly individual. Not a type - a concept he constantly struggles with:
everyone is a type. The true mark of social intelligence is how unusual we can make out particular behavior for the particular type we are when we are put particular pressure.