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As with all short story compilations, I enjoyed some more than others, but each one was unique. Each took place 100 years after the US and British invasion and it was eye-opening and thought-provoking to see how each author processed this and chose to represent the future — some shining light on the after effects of the war through speculative fiction while others leaned heavily into science fiction.

3⭐️

#Iraq #ReadtheWorld2025

This is long overdue, but this collection was good. Some stories were definitely better than others, but I overall enjoyed it.

WTF? Are vampires a thing in 2100?

One story down, nine to go. I may end up breaking this collection of short stories up while reading something else at the same time.

"It was hard to imagine that [ISIS] were once even more feared, as a terrorist group, than CAKA, the Christian Assembly of Kansas and Arkansas."
-Ibrahim Al-Marashi, "Najufa"

The author's acronym game is strong. ??

I had to skip a story called "Kuszib" that turned extremely transmisogynistic. ? I hate cis people so much sometimes.

10 stories by 10 different Iraqi authors. This collection has wide variety of content and tone. They contain the optimistic, the dark, the strange, and fantastic possible futures of a war torn country. It has aliens, technology and sometimes still religious extremism. I don‘t remember the last time I read an anthology and enjoyed all the individual stories. I loved this and I think it‘s important fiction. 4.5 ⭐️

#Iraq #translation #Arabic

From intro: “No nation in modern times has suffered as much as Iraq has suffered. Iraq has not tasted peace, freedom or stability since the first British invasion of the country in 1914. Since then, Iraqis have lived through a long saga of wars, Death, destruction, population displacement, imprisonment, torture, ruin and tragedies. So, perhaps unsurprisingly, it was difficult to persuade many Iraqi writers to write stories set in the future...”

I really need to finish the challenge book I'm reading, but I'm seriously tempted to start this new book from the library! Looking forward to this one!

Another amazing and important book out today: IRAQ + 100, the first collection of science fiction out of Iraq. 🤘🏻🤘🏻

Hell yeah!

I went looking for some #indiebooks for today's #autumnreads and now my TBR list is overflowing! These look amazing. 📚📚📚(https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/dec/21/hits-and-misses-indie-publishers-pick-their-books-of-2016)

This was really fascinating and some of the stories present interesting twists on the genre and the country's potential destination. Highly recommend.

Morning reading.

What will Iraq look like in 2013? These stories range from sci-fi to whatever you call stories that are not sci-fi. I thought that I bought this book a while ago but nope. Then it was out of stock so I waited waited waited. Now it's mine! All mine! (Maniacal laugh)

What will Iraq look like in the year 2103, 100 years after the U.S. invasion? This book looks amazing!

I've started a long term project to read a book from every country in the world before I'm thirty. I'm starting with Iraq + 100, a collection of short stories by Iraqi writers that are set one hundred years after the British-American invasion of 2003.

yet another to add to the TBR...

#diversebooks #DiverseBookBloggers

The good thing about being off sick today was that I was here for the arrival of exciting #bookpost

This just came across my Twitter feed, and I'm super excited to read it!

It's Iraq's *first* anthology of science fiction, pictured here with its editor, out from Comma Press in the U.K. this November. Most of us will have to wait a little longer, but it will be released as an ebook shortly after its U.K. release. So excited to see what these stories are like! 📚

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