![]() The science fiction serves as set dressing for their humanity. Suzuki focuses on the character’s relationships with each other, the friendship between Emi and the narrator, the narrator and Noashi, a famous celebrity, rather than on the surrounding setting. This vagueness projects a sense of purposeful exclusion, allowing space for the reader to fill in many missing points while preventing the narrative pace from dragging. ![]() like Dick, Suzuki often leaves out concrete details in favor of ambiguity, a sense of disconnection, and a grayness between black and white truths. In this collection, Suzuki’s stories are reminiscent of the unhinged science fiction dystopias of the master of the craft, Philip K. Even though sometimes they are 'out of this world' aliens or living in reimagined societies of the future, these are people struggling in the same ways we struggle today. ![]() ![]() an intimate exploration of anxiety, pain, and sadness. ![]()
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