Review: What a queer Taiwanese 1995 sci-fi novel got right about the future Noah Berlatsky © (Tang-mo Tan) Chi Ta-wei, whose 1995 novel The Membranes is just out in English translation. (Tang-mo Tan)
Taiwanese author Chi Ta-wei’s newly translated novel, “The Membranes,” was originally published in 1995 and you can tell. This is a future extrapolated from the 90s, with books-on-disc and depleted ozone rather than the internet and climate change. And yet, though the book’s hereafter looks backward to us today, there’s something very timely about its play with gender fluidity and the social construction of identity. There’s also something timeless about Chi’s future, because of how it bends and defies time itself. The novel is about how identity is a story we tell ourselves through time or back through time. And that story, for Chi, is queer.
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