The book, Palestine +100: Stories from a Century after the Nakba, edited by Basma Ghalayini, is a collection of short stories in which 12 Palestinian writers offer visions of life in 2048. The stories deploy a range of approaches ‘from science fiction noir to nightmarish dystopia, to high-tech farce – these stories use the blank canvas of the future to reimagine the Palestinian experience today’. Those genres involve a new departure for many of the writers involved – often seen as the type of escapism in which Palestinians cannot afford to indulge.