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Triton (novel)
''Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia'' (1976) is a science fiction novel by 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. It was originally published under the shorter title ''Triton''.
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''.〔(On Triton and Other Matters: An Interview with Samuel R. Delany )〕 It is also loosely linked to several others of his works (particularly ''Neveryóna'') 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 edition from Wesleyan University Press (1996) has a foreword by the postmodern novelist Kathy Acker, focusing on ''Trouble on Triton'' as Orphic fiction.
== Plot introduction ==
As the subtitle implies, the novel offers several conflicting perspectives on the concept of utopia. ''Utopia'' literally means "good place" or "no place". Delany takes the term ''heterotopia'' from the writings of philosopher Michel Foucault. Literally, heterotopia means "other place" or "a place of differences". Foucault uses the term to designate spaces outside everyday fixed institutional and social spaces, for example trains, motels and cemeteries. In the novel's future solar system, Neptune's moon Triton supports one of several human societies independent from Earth, which has developed along radically libertarian lines in some ways: though a representative government exists, it has virtually no power to regulate private behavior, and citizens may choose to live in an area where no laws apply at all. Technology provides for a high degree of self-modification, so that one can change one's physical appearance, gender, sexual orientation, and even specific patterns of likes and dislikes.
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