Triton (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Samuel R. Delany
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Utopian fiction
- Subjects: Colonies or colonization, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Sex or sexuality, Gender roles, Future, Other worlds, Earth, Utopias
- Locales: Earth, Triton (fictive)
The role that language played in Babel-17 and that mythic patterns played in The Einstein Intersection is assigned to traditional sexual identities in Triton. In this novel, Delany explores the way in which one's relationships, especially those dictated by the norms of society, determine one's self-image. Triton depicts a sexual utopia existing in the year 2112 c.e., a society in which all forms of personal relationships are permitted.
Without any restrictions placed upon them, the inhabitants of this society are free to invent or develop whatever...
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