Status Updates From Trouble on Triton: An Ambig...

The street was wet, Bron realized. Had he been incarcerated through one of the fabled rains various areas of the Earth still underwent from time to time?
Suddenly that seemed the most incredible aspect of the injustice. He felt, through the weakness and the hunger and the thirst and the fear and the rage, that he might weep.
Rain...!

"I've always thought the division we use out here of humanity into forty or fifty basic sexes, falling loosely into nine categories, four homophilic--"
"What?"
"You mean, you never punched Sex on General Info when you were ten? ...Homophilic means no matter who or what you like to screw, you prefer to live and have friends primarily from your own sex."

So bizarre I love it

"My dear young man," Lawrence had said, "everyone is a type. The true mark of social intelligence is how unusual we can make our particular behavior for the particular type we are when we are put under particular pressure."

I’m glad to reread this book with my best friend! It’s been five years since I first read this and Delany still astounds me with his gorgeous prose and bizarre worldbuilding and culture of Triton. And yet Bron is still such a jerk like a man from the 21st century haha, turns out a so called utopia isn’t so perfect after all