How To Invent Everything: A Survival Guide For The Stranded Time Traveler

How To Invent Everything: A Survival Guide For The Stranded Time Traveler

"How to Invent Everything is such a cool book. It's essential reading for anyone who needs to duplicate an industrial civilization quickly." --Randall Munroe, xkcd creator and New York Times-bestselling author of What If? The only book you need if you're going back in time What would you do if a time machine hurled you thousands of years into the past. . . and then broke? How would you survive? Could you improve on humanity's original timeline? And how hard would it be to domesticate a giant wombat? With this book as your guide, you'll survive-- and thrive--in any period in Earth's history. Bestselling author and time-travel enthusiast Ryan North shows you how to invent all the modern conveniences we take for granted--from first principles. This illustrated manual contains all the science, engineering, art, philosophy, facts, and figures required for even the most clueless time traveler to build a civilization from the ground up. Deeply researched, irreverent, and significantly more fun than being eaten by a saber-toothed tiger, How to Invent Everything will make you smarter, more competent, and completely prepared to become the most important and influential person ever. You're about to make history. . . better. Review ?Technically, we are all time travelers and we are all trapped. So, even if you happen to be scanning this blurb in what you perceive to be a 'normal' timeline, I heartily recommend you read this book cover to cover.? -Zach Weinersmith, creator of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal and author of Soonish ?Brilliant conceit. . . . a slyly funny piece of popular science writing.? -Glen Weldon, NPR?s Great Reads of 2018 ?Hilarious and endlessly fascinating . . . For the vast general population that might decide to trust their lives to the FC3000, this book is potentially invaluable (and mighty entertaining) one-stop-shop for everything you need to know about life, the universe, and the fly wheel.? - Christian Science Monitor ?Ryan North's latest is a handy guide for what to do if you get stuck in the Stone Age?The manual stands well on its own, even if you'll never set foot in a time machine.? - Popular Mechanics ?An entertaining and informative survey of Big History . . . worth holding on to even if we never do figure out time travel.? - Toronto Star ?A hilarious and practical guide.? - Atlas Obscura ?The scale of How to Invent Everything