Connections To Other Works
Bron's home city of Bellona, Mars shares its name with the Bellona where Delany's Dhalgren is set.
Several plot elements in Trouble on Triton have similar corresponding elements in Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand.
Trouble on Triton is set in the same universe as Delany's short story "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones," found in his collection Aye, and Gomorrah, and other stories.
The complex game vlet, which Bron observes the play of, is inspired by the Joanna Russ short story "A Game of Vlet," found in her collection The Zanzibar Cat.
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