Izumi Suzuki was born in 1949 under the Allied occupation and came of age during the 1960s, an era of drugs, rock and roll, and nationwide protests in Japan as it was elsewhere. I had never heard of Suzuki before I bought her book on a whim at the Verso sale (not surprising, given the lack of translations), but she was apparently a pretty influential figure for science fiction writers, especially female sci-fi writers, in Japan.
From what I can tell, it’s only posthumously that her stories ever appeared together in a collection-they were originally published in Japanese magazines. 1 Published thirty-five years after her death, Terminal Boredom is the first time Suzuki has been translated in English.
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