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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...

By Liza Monroy | Fantastical novellas and collections of short fiction can offer readers a brief respite from reality. A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Tor.com, July), the slender first volume in Hugo Award–winner Becky Chambers’s Monk & Robot series, is dedicated to “anybody who could use a break.” Set in a future in which, freed from work obligations, intelligent robots disappeared from cities into the wilderness, the story follows Sibling Dex, a tea monk (job description: “ listen to people, give tea”), who stumbles upon Mosscap, a robot, traversing wild terrain. As much...