Fantasy Book Critic: Exclusive Cover Reveal: China + 100 Edited by Xueting C. Ni

Comma Press is an independent & Not-For-Profit publisher that in short fiction from the UK and beyond. China +100 is their newest offering which is edited by Xueting C. Ni. The anthology will be released on 24th September 2026.

This SF anthology features the talents of ten brilliant writers (Lu Hang, Zhou Dedong, Ling Chen , Dan Shi , He Zun, He Xi, Anna Wu, Tang Fei, Zhao Haihong , Yimei Tangguo & Chen Qiufan).

The anthology cover is designed by David Eckersall with art direction done by Ra Page. Checkout how the cover evolved and the official blurb below:

Official Book Blurb: China + 100 poses a simple question to ten Chinese writers: what might your country look like in the year 2119 – a century after the first outbreak of Covid-19?

How might this event – which triggered a global health crisis – reach across a century of technological progress, social engineering, and medical advances, to shape the country and its people? Will the lessons of the pandemic have been learned? Will the people’s trust in government and science have been repaired?

Covering a range of contexts, from transhumanist performance art to lawless dystopia, these stories use the prism of the future to inspect both intergenerational repercussions from the 2019 outbreak and imagined future pandemic scenarios. Along the way, we encounter concrete-devouring super-fungi, deep-space outbreaks, slum clearances dressed up as ‘quarantine measures’, and science-defying rumours spreading faster than any virus. But at the heart of each story lies a moving testimony to the loss that the entire country experienced and the trauma it has yet to fully unpack.