![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Concerns about society, gender and imperialism dovetail irresistibly with flights of speculative wonder. Suzuki's singular slant on science fiction remains fresh and essential. The fissures in a queer matriarchal utopia are exposed when a boy - a creature usually contained in ghettoised isolation - appears beneath young YĆ«ko's window an extreme government initiative curbing overpopulation prompts a woman to re-evaluate her friendships the last family in a desolate city learns to be human through the awkward appropriation of popular culture passive-aggressive furniture provides unwelcome romantic advice tense interplanetary politics distort Emma's love life Jane's ex-girlfriend reppears, radically altered and insistent on a catch-up Tokyo's teenagers, disaffected and numb from excessive screentime, find distraction in violence. Seven punky and pitch-black stories offer English-language readers an overdue introduction to Izumi Suzuki, a cult figure in Japanese literature. ![]()
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