On Friday evening a regrettably small audience gathered at the Ilkley Literature Festival to hear about the new book of short stories from Comma Press. Called Iraq+100, it's an exploration of what Iraq might be like a hundred years after the 2003 invasion, i.e. in 2103. Comma Press founder Ra Page and the book's editor Hassan Blasim (sometimes with the assistance of an interpreter) talked us through the idea behind the book, what it's like to be a writer in Iraq, and the lack of a science fiction tradition in the Arab world.
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Looking at the future of Iraq through fiction
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On Friday evening a regrettably small audience gathered at the Ilkley Literature Festival to hear about the new book of short stories from Comma Press. Called Iraq+100, it's an exploration of what Iraq might be like a hundred years after the 2003 invasion, i.e. in 2103. Comma Press founder Ra Page and the book's editor Hassan Blasim (sometimes with the assistance of an interpreter) talked us through the idea behind the book, what it's like to be a writer in Iraq, and the lack of a science fiction tradition in the Arab world.