The Book of Joan

A strange lyrical dystopia where toxins and radiation caused the only remnants of humanity to transform into hairless sexless white-skinned androgynes that live a life of surveillance on a space station above the barren and destroyed earth. (And it's only 2049). They are doomed to die out, unable to reproduce. They graft their bodies with tattooed stories of their lost love, sexuality and humanity. Yet there is hope in the form of mythical Joan, a warrior that bonded with the dirt and has power over nature.

Lush poetic writing, and an interesting setup, but the characters and plot stayed too simplistic for my taste, and ultimately I was disappointed. More abstraction and less fantasy probably would have made me like this more. Still worth it though.