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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