![]() ![]() ![]() Nonchalantly hip and full of deranged prescience, Suzuki’s singular slant on speculative fiction would be echoed in countless later works, from Neuromancer to The Handmaid’s Tale. Two new friends enjoy drinks on a holiday resort planet where all is not as it seems, and the air itself seems to carry a treacherously potent nostalgia.īack on Earth, Emma’s not certain if her emotionally abusive, green-haired boyfriend is in fact an intergalactic alien spy, or if she’s been hitting the bottles and baggies too hard.Īnd in the title story, the tyranny of enforced screen-time and the mechanisation of labour foster a cold-hearted and ultimately tragic disaffection among the youth of Tokyo. But beneath these badly learned behaviours lies an atavistic appetite for destruction. The last family in a desolate city struggles to approximate twentieth- century life on Earth, lifting what notions they can from 1960s popular culture. In a future 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 interrupted. The first English-language publication of the work of Izumi Suzuki, a legend of Japanese science fiction and a countercultural icon “Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Thrillist, The Millions, Frieze, and Metropolis Japan ![]()
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