One of the Briton’s most famous novels—“A History of the World in 10½ Chapters”—is classified by scholars as a literary SF novel. A novel in ten stories, each of which, taking its cue from the Old Testament events of the Great Flood and Noah’s Ark, shows the reader the history of existence not through the iconic episodes that made it into every textbook, but through interpretations and reflections on the mythologems and “birthmarks” of our contemporary society. From the Flood to Paradise, from satire to phantasmagoria, in the voices of humans and insects—such is the scale of “A History of the World in 10½ Chapters.”