A host of unusual beings, sirens, fauns, androids, insect eaters, intergalactic investigators, roam the pages of these short stories. With his experimental but always sensitive writing, Chi Ta-wei invents worlds to come which, while strangely resembling our own, reveal the poisons that gnaw at him and strive to find the antidotes. After Membrane, a powerful and poetic science fiction novel on the mutations of the body and memory, he questions...
