Ryan North is the New York Times-bestselling author of Romeo and/or Juliet and To Be or Not To Be. He's the creator of Dinosaur Comics and the Eisner Award-winning writer of Adventure Time, Jughead, and The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl for Marvel Comics, and he has a master's in computational linguistics from the University of Toronto. Ryan lives in Toronto with his wife, Jenn, and their dog, Noam Chompsky.
“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 is downright
encyclopedic, and the voice, on every page, bubbles with humor.
Reading it brought me back to all the afternoons I’d spent as a kid
flipping through the big reference books in my local library, and
then eagerly running home to tell anyone who’d listen what I’d
learned. One of this book’s great achievements is the way it so
gracefully combines scholarly rigor with youthful wonder.”
—Electric Literature
“How to Invent Everything is a genuinely entertaining bit
of pop science writing, a brief history of human civilization with
a wicked sense of humor and sci-fi set-up that make it as fun as it
is informative. It’s an essential read for would-be time travelers
as well as anyone who really wants to know all the various uses for
an alpaca.” —Barnes & Noble Blog
“I recommend this to any time traveler or world builder who is in
the market for a fresh civilization. This is certainly one of those
‘better to have and not need rather than need and not have’ books,
folks. So run out and grab this.” —Geeks of Doom
“A must-read for any potential time traveler.” —Unbound Worlds
“Stranded in a past century? Not to worry! Here’s the entertaining
and sometimes even hilarious book that will tell you everything you
need to know.” – Christian Science Monitor
“A dazzling piece of work that's also genuinely hilarious.” —Elan
Mastai, author of All Our Wrong Todays
“A witty pop science guide intended for those demanding times when
one needs to create a civilization from scratch... wry humor keeps
the discussion lighthearted. North’s 'survival guide' is a fun,
thoughtful, and thoroughly accessible reference for curious
readers, students, and world-builders, as well as wayward time
travelers.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Packed with cool, fun, and useful stuff... a friendly and
thought-provoking reference, just the thing for the bright kid in
the family, to say nothing of the neighborhood time traveler.”
—Kirkus Reviews
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