Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia

First published in 1976, this innovative, highly intellectual novel by Samuel Delaney—one of science fiction's first queer and African-American authors—broke serious ground. It's set on a world in which gender, race, and sexuality are completely fluid, creating a potentially utopian situation where none of the hierarchies we take for granted in modern life hold sway. We see the world through the eyes of an immigrant who struggles to cope with this new reality. This edition has a forward by postmodern writer Kathy Acker.