Self-Reference ENGINE

Plot

Science, surrealism, number theory, and more dead Sigmund Freuds than you can shake a stick at.

Toh EnJoe’s prize-winning fiction is well-known in Japan for crossing the streams—from hardcore science fiction to bizarre surrealism—and has found an audience across the genre divide. Self-Reference ENGINE is a puzzle of a book, where vignette and story and philosophy combine to create a novel designed like a concept album.