Where Le Guin explored life as someone who is LGBT+ in a predominantly straight “utopia,” Delany explores the inverse. Originally written as a response to Le Guin’s The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, Delany explores what it might be like to experience a progressive, open society as a very traditional, masculine male with conservative ideas about the roles and capabilities of men and women. Delany is one hell of a trip and surprisingly relevant to modern day discourse on gender and sex. Triton, also published under Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia, by Samuel R. “Don’t worry, I’ll be back in time for the performance.” “Now-” The veil fluttered with her breath-“we can roam the labyrinths of honesty and deceit, searching out the illusive centers of our being by a detailed examination of the shift and glitter of our own, protean surfaces-” White plumes rose above it, as from some albino peacock. Over her head was a full-head mask: white veils hung below the eyes the icy globe was a-glitter with white sequins. She reached up and pulled the white cloak around her shoulders. Her long skirt and high-necked bodice were white. “ The door opened she slipped out the door clicked to behind. r/Fantasy Bingo Squares: Slice of Life (Hard Mode), Cyberpunk (Hard Mode), Afrofuturism, Retelling (Hard Mode)
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