Iran+100

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Iran +100 poses a simple question to 10 Iranian authors: What might Iran look like in the year 2053, a century after the coup that overthrew the democratically elected prime minister (Mohammad Mosaddegh), strengthened the Shah’s position and led, down the line, to the current authoritarian regime. In the light of past and present political struggles, human rights movements, ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’, and battles for freedom of expression, will progress have been made and solutions found? Might things have improved? Or will the future merely offer new technologically-enabled strategies for maintaining the current status quo?
From the sinking of Tehran into a great, tourist-attracting 'Pit', to inter-dimensional voids attaching themselves to people and temporarily swallowing them up, these stories explore contemporary concerns, extrapolated into strange futures. Covering everything from the rethinking of gender roles to the scarcity of energy resources in a climate-ravaged future, from magic realism, to steampunk to dystopia, these stories show how old struggles can still find new forms of expression.