Delany’s utopia was partly written in adversarial dialogue with LeGuin’s The Dispossessed. His utopia is rooted in its emancipated people and culture, their lived experience foregrounded, with politics as the stage; utopia as praxis. Triton’s citizens live in communes and co-ops delineated along lines of gender and sexuality (easily altered with medical procedures). The narrative is anchored by their quotidian social interactions, bursting with sex, games, music, theatre, and fashion;...