by Samuel R. Delany – 1976

This comedy of manners focuses on Bron Helstrom, a young man living on Triton who has previously worked on Mars as a male prostitute. The society of Mars is far harsher than that of utopian Triton, and it has evidently influenced Bron’s personality. He is self-absorbed, often lacks insight about himself and others, and has great difficulty with personal relationships. Though the civilization of Triton offers everything that he could reasonably want, he is unhappy with his life, out of harmony with those around him, and continually looking for others to blame whenever things go wrong.

Triton itself is embattled and enters into a war with Earth.

Bron’s troubles become more and more complex, and he decides the best answer to his problems is to become a woman.

Author Delany has said that Trouble on Triton, whose subtitle is An Ambiguous Heterotopia, was written partly in dialogue with Ursula K. Le Guin’s anarchist science fiction novel The Dispossessed, whose subtitle was An Ambiguous Utopia.