These stories lean towards the dystopian tendencies of Margaret Atwood, only they are not as cheerful as those by Atwood. "Terminal Boredom" is a collection of seven short scifi stories written in the 70's and 80's by the actress, model, and author Izumi Suzuki and republished posthumously in 2021 in English. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.)ĭisclaimer: I would like to thank the publisher, Verso Books, for providing a review copy of this book. (Please note that I received a free ecopy of this book without a review requirement, or any influence regarding review content should I choose to post a review. I don't necessarily always "get" Suzuki's point, but I certainly get why she's so popular. A lot of it is literally about boredom, including terminal boredom, and it's pretty hard to make boredom interesting, much less exciting. I thought, now we're cooking.Īfter that, though, through three more stories, we dream, we travel, we talk and drink, we go to sleep and we wake up, and it's all slightly odd, and disjointed, and disorienting. It just kept getting better as I read and it finished socko. It is laugh out loud funny and as edgy, irreverent, and twisty as you could possibly want. Then we hit the third story, "The Night Picnic", which is about the last, isolated, slightly deranged, surviving humans, lost in the cosmos, trying to act like traditional humans, based on old videos, books, and the like.
I wondered when the special would start to happen. Well, the first two stories in this collection, (one about a world without men and the other about voluntarily checking out), were slow and bland. A quick survey of her other books more or less confirmed this assessment. I was curious about this book because, as the blurb promised, Suzuki is a "legend of Japanese science fiction and a countercultural icon". A Really, Really, Mixed But Mostly Interesting Bag
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