“odds on surviving when there’s no mains water/electricity/gas/sewage? Head for the hills”–hopefully there is a library in the hills stocked with all of your books. It would have been really helpful if you had written history textbooks in 1970 when my brain was under seige at school–I might have had a shot at a passing grade and actually enjoyed it!!! Would definitely have made a student’s year in France more interesting. My son,11, is addicted to War Craft III –video game, dare I introduce him to Thomas the archer? PS. Are there any good maps online of the areas described in Heretic–I’m reading it now, but as I’m a “visual learner”, a map would help to follow the action. Ellie Boyd