![]() ![]() The novel is able to explore these various topics through deconstructing the experience of the protagonist, Bron Helstrom. In addition, Trouble on Triton explores the nature of language drawing on the emergence of deconstruction and poststructuralism via the work of Michel Foucault and Jaques Derrida that was becoming increasingly popular at the time of the novel’s release. Trouble on Triton is uniquely concerned with the presence of the “utopia” both in SF, and in Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, and in the liberation movements of the 1960s and 1970s. ![]() ![]() To put Delany’s novels in context, it is both necessary to understand the social and political landscape of the period, but also the theoretical and philosophical moments. Like all SF, Delany’s writings reflect the social and political context of the moment at which they emerge, but they also tend to reflect the questions and concerns of theoretical and philosophical movements of the period from which they emerge. One such novel is Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia, published in 1976. His novels often included some of the ideas of literary theorists and his own writings on the genre of SF in their construction. Delany commonly used speculative fiction as a way to explore philosophy and theory, and wrote literary criticism that explored the nature of SF as a genre. ![]() Delany is considered a giant among speculative fiction writers for his prolific career and literary style. Science Fiction: Humanity, Technology, the Present, the Future ![]()
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