Terminal Boredom is a collection of short stories by Japanese writer Izumi Suzuki, written between the late 1970s and early 1980s and steeped in the disaffection of a society drifting toward technological dependency and emotional collapse. Set in near-future worlds that feel only a step removed from reality, Suzuki’s fiction maps lives shaped by alienation, gendered violence, and the quiet exhaustion of modern living. Her protagonists move through fractured relationships, collapsing social systems, and half-imagined futures where intimacy is unstable and agency is always under threat. Her prose is precise and unsentimental, using the language of science fiction less to speculate than to expose the psychic damage of late-capitalist life. Long overlooked outside Japan, Terminal Boredom stands as a key work of feminist fiction, anticipating contemporary anxieties around technology, isolation, and control. During her life she also worked as a model and actress, famously posing for Nobuyoshi Araki with a portrait he shot of her as the cover image.