![]() Her protagonists negotiate these spaces with a cool detachment. Suzuki’s settings range from the intimate – bars, cafés, arcades, nightclubs – to the desolate: ruined cities and worlds on the edge of the abyss. An iconic figure in Japanese science fiction, Suzuki’s darkly irreverent writing has seen her compared to the genre’s giants – like Ursula Le Guin and Margaret Atwood – but her stories also bring to mind Bret Easton Ellis’s affectless ennui, or the glossily grim cautionary tales of the popular TV show Black Mirror. Izumi Suzuki published her final story 35 years ago, but this introductory selection of her writing could have been written in the nuclear-paranoia 80s, the cyberpunk 90s, or yesterday. Terminal Boredom: Stories (Verso) by Izumi Suzuki ![]()
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