Description: Praise for How to Invent Everything : " How to Invent Everything is such a cool book. It's essential reading for anyone who needs to duplicate an industrial civilization quickly." --Randall Munroe, xkcd creator and New York Times -bestselling author of What If? "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 "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 Praise for Ryan North and his books: "[ Romeo and/or Juliet is] Shakespeare with even more sex, cryptography, time travel, and alternate endings than the original! Ryan North is the only writer I know who's smart enough and funny enough to pull this off." --Lev Grossman, author of the Magicians trilogy "[ Romeo and/or Juliet is a] ridiculously fun book. . . . Ryan North is awesome. . . . It is as hilarious and funny and strange as you would imagine . . . so crazy, so much fun. . . . It's fantastic." -- Book Riot "[ The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl ] was freaking hilarious . . . it's the closest thing the Marvel universe has to a classic screwball sitcom." --Nerdist "Reference mixed with irreverence--that's what makes To Be or Not to Be so much fun." -- Slate "Ryan North's The Best of Dinosaur Comics: 2003-2005 A.D. had me howling with laughter and passing the book around to whomever I could lay hands on to point out particularly good strips. Dinosaur Comics is an unlikely gem of a webcomic." --Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing " Machine of Death is a marvelous collection, riddled with intelligence, creative reach, and a frankness that makes the best use of the central gimmick." --Tasha Robinson, The Onion A.V. Club " This Is How You Die is a brilliantly addictive book that reads like a series of existential, death-obsessed Twilight Zone episodes. Very highly recommended." --Seth Grahame-Smith, author of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

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