ISTANBUL 2099

William Gibson described Istanbul as the city that always remained the same in his science fiction novel Neuromancer, which he wrote in the eighties. In the quarter century since that book, the city has changed at a dizzying pace. So where do we imagine this change, which displaces stone, soil, water and life, will lead us? This ancient city was here with its stories and narrators two thousand years ago, and it will be so at the close of the 21st century, but in what way? Istanbul 2099 contains sixteen striking visions of Istanbul at the end of the 21st century from the pens of sixteen authors. Sixteen new Istanbuls that are socially, architecturally, technologically, and sometimes geographically different. It is as far away as a lifetime, but as familiar and close as all the Istanbuls of yesterday and today. Welcome to the “brave new world” of future Istanbuls…