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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
The thing is .... a few years later, I picked up a book, I "think" it was called, "Titan" or something like that. Read it ... loved it ... turns out it was by the same author.
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Samuel R. Delany. Brilliant (if uneven) writer, and a nice guy.
The book you're thinking of was _Triton_, set on the moon of Saturn with that name. Technology has reached the point where you can change sex on an outpatient basis, and the protagonist does so in response to a failed love affair. I'd love to see a separate collection of the Notes Towards the Modular Calculus scattered through the book.
_Titan_ was a novel by John Varley, and part of a series including _Demon_ and _Wizard_. The original hardcover publication was illustrated, and I knew the illustrator and several of the folks who served as models.
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Dennis