Triton
Samuel R. Delany
369 pages, Mass Market Paperback
ISBN: 0553025678
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Language: English
Publish: 192009600000
ClassicsFantasyFictionGenderLGBTNovelsQueerScience FictionScience Fiction FantasySpeculative Fiction
The human race has colonized the outer satellites. One of them is Triton, moon of Neptune, where the ideals of universal prosperity are possible. Yet Earth threatens war…
Within this strange climate of complete utopia and certain doom, Bron Helstrom seeks passion and purpose in a gypsy woman whose wisdom and power will forever reverse his life.
THE SPIKE: The woman he loves — a wandering playwright from Ganymede.
SAM: The man he admires — the handsome, astute chief foreign officer crippled by the responsibility of vast power.
LAWRENCE: His confessor — the master of strategic games.
CHARO and WINDY: The players — cosmic minstrels of the far future.