Lucas Blogs About How to Invent Everything
Huh, it's like a textbook about everything for grown-ups who aren't enrolled in a class. So, what's this book's deal? You remember those books from when you were a kid that explain how things work? Of course. So, this book is kinda like that but for grown-ups. It's sort of a wide-ranging guide to the basics of science, technology, art, and philosophy (various philosophical schools are pithily described by their attitudes toward high fives). Oh, and it's also a work of science-fiction. So it's non-fiction and science fiction? Yeah. The subtitle is "A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler." The author, Ryan North , has an introductory note explaining that he found the text embedded in Pre-Cambrian rock, and that it appears to have been written by one Ryan North, a technical writer from a different timestream. The text itself claims to be a repair manual for an FC3000™rental time machine. Only the thing is, when you open up the s...