The Badlands, Book One of Two

6 best books like The Badlands, Book One of Two (Susan Wright): How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, The Abode of Life, Alien Hand Syndrome and Other Too-Weird-Not-To-Be-True Stories, Spacecraft: 2000-2100 AD, The Way To The Stars, Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words

How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems

Author	Randall Munroe
ISBN	1473680336

How To is an instruction manual for taking everyday problems and using science and creative thinking to turn them into much bigger and more exciting problems. It teaches you how to cross a river by boiling it, outlines some of the many uses for lava around the home, and walks you through how to use experimental...

The Abode of Life

Author	G. Harry Stine
ISBN	0671832972

ON THE PLANET MERCAN THERE ARE NO STARS, NO MOON, NO OUTER SPACE...The citizens of Mercan cannot conceive of worlds beyond their own. Their sun, Mercaniad, is prone to deadly, radioactive flare-ups, and the Mercans have organized their life around the need to survive The Ordeal -- until a strange visitor...

Alien Hand Syndrome and Other Too-Weird-Not-To-Be-True Stories

Author	Alan Bellows
ISBN	0761152253

If you like websites like Mental Floss and Damn Interesting, this book is definitely for you. Since I'm really into that kind of trivia, I'd heard of most of the phenomena listed in the book, but there were some I hadn't heard of before, which is a nice surprise, and even the entries I already was familiar...

Spacecraft: 2000-2100 AD

Author	Stewart Cowley
ISBN	0890092117

In middle school, I used to stare at this book for hours on end, imagining that distant future. Let's put this in context: Star Wars was one movie, Cylons were chrome-plated clods, and Space Invaders vied with Astroids for the title of 'Best Video Game.' Can't remember a thing about the text, but the pictures...

The Way To The Stars

Author	Una McCormack
ISBN	1982104759

Despite being an inexperienced Starfleet cadet, Sylvia Tilly became essential to the U.S.S. Discovery finding its way back home from the Mirror Universe. But how did she find that courage? From where did she get that steel? Who nurtured that spark of brilliance? The Way to the Stars recounts for fans...

Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words

Author	Randall Munroe
ISBN	0544668251

In Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words, things are explained in the style of Up Goer Five, using only drawings and a vocabulary of the 1,000 (or "ten hundred") most common words. Explore computer buildings (datacenters), the flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates), the things you use...