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Chi Tawei

The Membranes: A novel by Chi Ta-wei, translated by Ari Larissa Heinrich

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April 2022, no. 441
Josh Stenberg reviews ‘The Membranes: A novel’ by Chi Ta-wei, translated by Ari Larissa Heinrich

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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