Talk:A History of the World in 10½ Chapters

List of chapters
...would be nice. Unfortunately I don't have the book anymore. I actually came here looking information about the hostage chapter. Was it based on a real event? Anyone know when it happened? Piet 12:12, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

1. The Stowaway 2. The Visitors 3. The Wars of Religion 4. The Survivor 5. Shipwreck 6. The Mountain 7. Three Simple Stories 8. Upstream! Parenthesis 9. Project Ararat 10. The Dream

Not sure how to format that for inclusion in the article, though. As to the hostage question, I've no idea. Mgriffin 02:19, 13 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I've just thrown it in. Formatting of the parenthesis is a bit difficult and not satisfactory. Hope someone can improve it. Piet 08:47, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

The Survivor
Chapter four, "The Survivor", is not set in the future. The "history" part of the book's title should have made this fact quite obvious. It's a fictional story surrounding the real world Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident in 1986. There is also no outline of the third chapter, "The Wars of Religion". Lupus Gonzales (talk) 14:21, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
 * OK: it's set in a world in which the Chernobyl disaster was "the first big accident" and there have been reports that the world is on the brink of nuclear war. I suppose it could be set between 1986 and 1989. Humphrey Jungle (talk) 11:53, 22 June 2009 (UTC)