Science fiction in the story collection (Iraq+100)

Abstract

This article represents an analysis of the science fiction themes represented in the short story collection (Iraq+100). Based on the importance of science fiction literature and the necessity of exploring its depths and studying it seriously, away from the view that views it as literature for entertainment and pleasure only, it is a distant future vision of the challenges facing the individual in light of accelerating technological progress, the dominance of artificial intelligence, and the subsequent topics that include lived reality and its criticism, the transition to virtual reality - the parallel universe - and other worlds, leading to the raising of existential philosophical questions (death/immortality) and the dissolution of human identity. This research paper, with its sample, which anticipates the future of Iraq after one hundred years, starting from 2003 and extending to 2103 and beyond, highlights the future themes that come within a framework of gloomy pessimism presented by the seven writers based on realistic expectations encompassing the political, social, and technological reality, etc. All these events take place within a narrative framework that combines enjoyment, astonishment, and a warning of the dire consequences of the country's fate a century later.