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Title: How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler

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Title: How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler Title Record # 2601713
Author: Ryan North
Date: 2018-09-18
Type: NONFICTION
Language: English
Note: The core content is real-world non-fiction (mostly on STEM topics, but with some sections covering areas such as philosophy and music), regarding inventions and discoveries and how they came about. This information is presented using the conceit that the book is the manual for a time machine, aimed at users who are stranded in the past if the machine breaks down, and how they might be able to (re)build a society capable of fixing the time machine. The introduction further elaborates the conceit, implying that this "manual" was written by a version of the author from an alternative, more advanced timeline than our own.
Synopsis: Based on the conceit of a manual for users of a time machine, to cover eventualities where the time machine has broken down.
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Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
2018Subtitled "Rebuild All of Civilization (with 96% fewer catastrophes this time)".
How to Invent Everything
Year Language Title
2020Translated by Carolin Moser
German Wie man unsere Zivilisation wieder aufbaut, wenn man sich mit seiner Zeitmaschine verfahren hat

Awards

Place Year and Award Category
16 2018 Goodreads Science & Technology
Nominations Below Cutoff
24 nominations with 14.78 points
2019 Hugo Best Related Work

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler 2018-09-18 Ryan North Riverhead Books 978-0-7352-2014-0
$27.00?$: US dollar
437
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
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How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler 2018-09-20 Ryan North Virgin Books 978-0-7535-5255-1
£25.00?£: UK pound
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
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Wie man unsere Zivilisation wieder aufbaut, wenn man sich mit seiner Zeitmaschine verfahren hat 2020-11-17 Ryan North EMF 978-3-7459-0168-9
€18.00?€: Euro
447
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
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