Paprika

Widely acknowledged as Yasutaka Tsutsui's masterpiece, Paprika unites his

surreal, quirky imagination with a mind-bending narrative about a psychiatric

institute that has developed the technology to invade people's dreams.

When prototype models of a dream-invading device go missing at the Institute for

Psychiatric Research, it transpires that someone is using them to drive people insane.

Threatened both personally and professionally, brilliant psychotherapist Atsuko Chiba has

to journey into the world of fantasy to fight her mysterious opponents. As she delves ever

deeper into the imagination, the borderline between dream and reality becomes

increasingly blurred, and nightmares begin to leak into the everyday realm. The scene is

set for a final showdown between the dream detective and her enemies, with the

subconscious as their battleground, and the future of the waking world at stake.

With a new, authorised English translation this is a brilliant addition to the SF Masterworks collection.