How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
Ryan North
Non-Fiction / Science
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
by Ryan North
—· 464 p· 2018
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Overview
About
An NPR Best Book of 2018 "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 t…
Pages
464
Riverhead Books
Linguistic complexity
2/5
Straightforward
Thematic complexity
3/5
Layered
Rating
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Reader feel
Practical Usefulness10
Humorous Instruction9
Worldbuilding8
Narration8
Pacing8
Prose7
Emotional depth4
Plot twists2
My journey
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