Triton appears to have been more successful than a lot of the books I talk about on this blog, going through many different printings and editions and being included in a Book-Of-The-Month Club omnibus edition called Radical Utopias along with Joanna Russ's The Female Man and Suzy McKee Charnas's Walk to the End of the World. I didn't have anything in particular planned after The Future Is Now, so I figured, why not? Martin Wisse spoke up, urging me to read the novel tout suite. But considering all that happened, how do you tell if any of it was real? I don't know big their endowment was.and maybe the 'endowment' was part of the 'theater' too.' Recently Joachim Boaz, Fred Kiesche, Winchell Chung and I had a conversation via twitter about the Mitchell Hooks cover of Samuel R. may turn out to be as important a writer as Pynchon.'There was this man, you see, from some sect she called the Dumb Beasts-I mean, if there is such a sect. ''Delany has been the cutting edge of the SF revolution for more than ten years. Triton is a novel of manners –– those of a rich and complex society in which the avowed highest good is the free expression of each individual's personality.''

''Delany's most controlled, and therefore his most successful, experiment to date. The author has created an innovative and fascinating culture.'' ~Earl Jackson, Jr., author of Fantastic Living: The Speculative Autobiographies of Samuel R.

The dazzle always illuminates: the novel offers vision-altering thrills on the order of paradigm shifts or sex at its most rapturously cataclysmic.' Delany sets his interrogation of the myth and politics of a central culture within an infinitely richer galaxy of interwoven margins. 'This is classic Delany that maintains a cutting edge of sheer platinum.

~Gerald Jonas, New York Times Book Review Triton is a novel of manners –– those of a rich and complex society in which the avowed highest good is the free expression of each individual's personality.' 'Delany's most controlled, and therefore his most successful, experiment to date.

Triton by Samuel R. Delany