Hit Parade of Tears: Stories

Izumi Suzuki had ideas about doing things differently, ideas that paid little attention to the laws of physics, or the laws of the land. In this new collection, her skewed imagination distorts & enhances some of the classic concepts of science fiction & fantasy.

A philandering husband receives a bestial punishment from a wife with her own secrets to keep; a music lover finds herself in a timeline both familiar & as wrong as can be; a misfit band of space pirates discover a mysterious baby among the stars; Emma, the Bovary-like character from one of Suzuki's stories in Terminal Boredom, lands herself in a bizarre romantic pickle.

Wryly anarchic & deeply imaginative, Suzuki was a writer like no other. These eleven stories offer readers the opportunity to delve deeper in this singular writer's work.

Izumi Suzuki (1949–1986) was a countercultural icon & a pioneer of Japanese science fiction. She worked as a keypunch operator before finding fame as a model & actress, but it was her writing that secured her reputation. She took her own life at the age of thirty-six.