{"product_id":"terminal-boredom","title":"Terminal Boredom","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-teaser\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first English-language publication of the work of Izumi Suzuki, a legend of Japanese science fiction and a countercultural icon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe last family in a desolate city struggles to approximate twentieth- century life on Earth, lifting what notions they can from 1960s popular culture. But beneath these badly learned behaviours lies an atavistic appetite for destruction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBack 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNonchalantly hip and full of deranged prescience, Suzuki’s singular slant on speculative fiction would be echoed in countless later works, from \u003cem\u003eNeuromancer\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eThe Handmaid’s Tale\u003c\/em\u003e. In these darkly playful and punky stories, the fantastical elements are always grounded in the universal pettiness of strife between the sexes, and the gritty reality of life on the lower rungs, whatever planet that ladder might be on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[publisher's note]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57357668352340,"sku":"A8B-29414","price":16.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/Num_C3_A9riser_2017_ca519ecd-b32a-4b44-ab30-0cd4cb83d2ef.jpg?v=1790812622","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/terminal-boredom","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}