![]() Delany describes Triton’s government and social structure as fluid and hands-off, compared to the governments of Mars and Earth. The impact of the war is physically felt on Triton when its colony temporarily loses gravity during an attack that passes near the moon. ![]() The other satellite colonies, including Mars and Neptune’s moons, have declared neutrality, but the common sentiment is that they will soon have to pick sides. Neptune is embroiled in an interplanetary war, and its primary adversary is Earth. ![]() Bron was born on Mars and moved to Triton when he became an adult. Trouble on Triton begins by introducing its protagonist, Bron. The novel won the 1976 Nebula Award for Best Novel. The novel is skeptical of certain virtues taken for granted as features of utopias namely, compassion, individuality, constructive dissent, and joy. The distinguishing feature of Delany’s title is “heterotropia,” a word coined by mid-twentieth-century social philosopher Michel Foucault to represent the uncannily comforting, uniform, and hollow idealizations of society that tend to emerge when people try to imagine what a utopia should look like. The novel responds to another utopian sci-fi novel, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, by Ursula K. ![]() Set in the distant future on a human-populated Triton (Neptune’s largest moon), the novel delves into the psychology of Bron, an inhabitant who is driven mad by the conformity, complacency, and order of its utopia. Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia is a 1976 science fiction novel by American author Samuel R. ![]()
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