Terminal Boredom : Stories
by
Izumi Suzuki
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Verso Fiction
ISBN-10
1788739884
ISBN-13
9781788739887
Publisher
Verso Books
Imprint
Verso Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 20th, 2021
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
190 grams
Dimensions
13.00 x 19.70 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Classic science fiction
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The first English language publication of the work of Izumi Suzuki, a legend of Japanese science fiction and a countercultural icon.
On a planet where men are contained in ghettoised isolation, women enjoy the fruits of a queer matriarchal utopia -- until a boy escapes and a young woman's perception of the world is violently interupted. Two old friends enjoy cocktails on a holiday resort planet where all is not as it seems. A bickering couple emigrate to a world that has worked out an innovative way to side-step the need for war, only to bring their quarrels (and something far more destructive) with them.<br>And in the title story, Suzuki offers readers a tragic and warped mirroring of her own final days as the tyranny of enforced screen-time and the mechanistion of labour bring about a shattering psychic collapse. <br><br>At turns nonchalantly hip and charmingly deranged, Suzuki's singular slant on speculative fiction would be echoed in countless later works, from Margaret Atwood and Harumi Murakami, to Black Mirror and Ex Machina. In these darkly playful and punky stories, the fantastical elements are always earthed by the universal pettiness of strife between the sexes, and the gritty reality of life on the lower rungs, whatever planet that ladder might be on.
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