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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...

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: ev...