pickThis is long overdue, but this collection was good. Some stories were definitely better than others, but I overall enjoyed it.
Iraq + 100: The First Anthology of Science Fiction to Have Emerged from Iraq | 
pickThis 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.
pick10 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 ⭐️
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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...”
pick3.5 ⭐️. Ten short stories by Iraqi writers envisioning Iraq 100 years after the US-led invasion. I love short speculative fiction, but I was mostly interested in this book because I have a huge blind spot in my knowledge about Iraq. Everything I've read about Iraq has been from the viewpoint of the American military or Western journalists! These futuristic tales provide insight into Iraq's present-day situation from a much-needed perspective.
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!
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)
pickThis was really fascinating and some of the stories present interesting twists on the genre and the country's potential destination. Highly recommend.
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...
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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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