Sympathy Tower Tokyo

A Novel

224 pages

English language

Published 2025 by Simon & Schuster, Incorporated.

ISBN:
978-1-6680-9414-3
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A Conservative, Strange Speculative Novel

Qudan packs a lot of speculation about language, meaning, and time into this novel, but from the beginning it struck me as having a particularly conservative perspective. There's a lot to like in the skepticism about AI, but the takes on prisoner welfare and UBI were decidedly off-putting. Learning later that the author admired far-right figure Mishima Yukio re-enforced my uneasiness with the book.