The Membranes: A novel
Columbia University Press, US$17 pb, 160 pp
Fiction
A finite jest
Chi Ta-wei’s dystopic novel
by Josh Stenberg •
Chi Ta-wei at the 2015 ‘Les Utopiales’ international festival of science fiction in Nantes (photograph by Yves Tennevin, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
It is 2100, and the states of the world have divvied up the ocean floor, constructing domed cities in which humanity, such as it is, survives. The earth’s irradiated, unliveable surface is the haunt of adventure tourists and archaeologists, the battleground of military androids watched on screens by the humans at the bottom of the sea.
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