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

Notes

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.

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