You're about to make history...
...better.

ryannorth:

To celebrate the paperback release of HOW TO INVENT EVERYTHING - my survival guide for stranded time travellers, now with an all-new chapter on sound recording and reproduction! - here’s SongWon Cho asking me how to invent paper in 30 seconds or less :0


HOW TO INVENT EVERYTHING - the survival guide for the stranded time traveller that teaches YOU how to invent, well, EVERYTHING - now has a paperback edition - with a brand new cover by Derek Charm!!
It’s available now at booksellers everywhere. You...

HOW TO INVENT EVERYTHING - the survival guide for the stranded time traveller that teaches YOU how to invent, well, EVERYTHING - now has a paperback edition - with a brand new cover by Derek Charm!!

It’s available now at booksellers everywhere.  You find out more - and order it from your bookseller of choice - here!


HOW TO INVENT EVERYTHING is one of NPR’s best books of 2018! And check out this starred review from Publisher’s Weekly!
It’s thrilling to see see such great reactions to the book!

HOW TO INVENT EVERYTHING is one of NPR’s best books of 2018!  And check out this starred review from Publisher’s Weekly! 

It’s thrilling to see see such great reactions to the book!


ryannorth:

The UK edition of HOW TO INVENT EVERYTHING is out today!  Now even the Queen Herself can rebuild civilization from scratch while stranded in the distant past.  You’re WELCOME, your majesty.

You can get it here!

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HOW TO INVENT EVERYTHING is published today!

Have you ever wondered what you’d do if you were sent back in time?  Wonder no longer.  With HOW TO INVENT EVERYTHING, you’ll have all the science, art, engineering, philosophy, math, and music required to build a technological civilization - from scratch - all on your own.  It’s the hilarious, educational, and awesome new book from Ryan North (from Dinosaur Comics, Squirrel Girl, Adventure Time, and more), and you can get it… right now, right here.

If you ever get sent back in time, you’ll be ready.  And if you ever just wished you knew more about the inner workings of the technological world we live in today - well, we’ve got you covered in that case too.

After all: you, my friend, are about to make history… better.


HOW TO INVENT EVERYTHING is a unique book: it’s a (fictional) time machine repair guide that (non-fictionally) explains how to reinvent civilization from scratch.  And now it’s on Amazon’s best books of the month list for BOTH non-fiction and scifi!! I think this may be the first time this has happened??

It’s not too late to pre-order!


COVER REVEAL! ALSO, ENTIRE PROJECT REVEAL!It’s the book I’ve been working on for the past two years, and it’s coming out this September 18th, 2018 CE. It’s the most ambitious book I’ve ever written. It’s a non-fiction book about civilization,...

COVER REVEAL!  ALSO, ENTIRE PROJECT REVEAL!

It’s the book I’ve been working on for the past two years, and it’s coming out this September 18th, 2018 CE.  It’s the most ambitious book I’ve ever written.  It’s a non-fiction book about civilization, technology, and humanity itself, wrapped in a candy-coated layer of delicious time-travel fiction.

Here’s the pitch!

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?

Don’t worry: in How to Invent Everything, bestselling author and time-travel enthusiast Ryan North has figured out the answers to those four questions – and more – just for you. (For reference, the answers to those particular questions are “well, hopefully the first thing you do is read this book”, “quite well, thanks to this book”, “yes, absolutely”, and “not hard at all, once you get to know them”). This guide contains all the science, engineering, mathematics, art, music, philosophy, facts, and figures required for even the most clueless time traveler to build a civilization from the ground up. Your new world will be one in which humanity matured quickly and efficiently, instead of doing what we did (i.e., spending 200,000 years stumbling around without language, thinking disease was caused by weird smells, and living completely oblivious to the fact that tying a rock to a string would unlock navigating the entire world).

How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler is a deeply researched history of the key technologies that made each stage of human civilization possible (from writing and farming to buttons and birth control), but it’s as fun and entertaining as a good time-travel novel. It will make you smarter, more competent, and completely prepared to thrive – in any point in history.  And, on the off chance you don’t one day find yourself stranded in time, this fascinating guide to the ideas and technologies that made us who we are today will at least allow you to make some really interesting cocktail-party small talk with a complete stranger…

…and you can get it right here.