![]() An actress and model who participated in the Japanese avant garde cinema of Shuji Terayama in the 1970s, she wrote sharp, incisive social SF that explores ideas around gender, alienation and drug use before committing suicide in 1986. Izumi Suzuki was a unique figure in Japanese speculative fiction. It’s like the boundary between them breks down, like you’re living in a dream.” Reality feels like a TV show, and TV shows feel like reality. You can just tack on an illogical ending to the story, like a deus ex machina for life. Like, you realize that there’s a simple way of dealing with everything that’s been weighing on you up til now. “All the shitty stuff stops bothering you. Izumi Suzuki – Terminal Boredom (2021, translated by Polly Barton, Sam Bett, David Boyd, Daniel Joseph, Aiko Masubuchi, and Helen O’Horan) ![]()
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