119.00 €
The Black Book
The Ultimate Guide to Alternative Inventions
HUNGRY MINDS
The Black Book is the next flagship release from Hungry Minds: a premium, highly visual product built around powerful idea of alternative inventions and the timelines they create.
Step Into the World that Almost Happened: The Black Book invites you into worlds where history turned differently. It explores alternative inventions and the ripple effects they could have had on civilization, culture, architecture, transport, industry, and everyday life. Each spread asks a question: what would our world look like if these forgotten ideas had become real?
More than just Invention Encyclopedia: This book does not simply list forgotten ideas. It imagines the timelines they might have created, showing how one unrealized machine, design, or technology could have reshaped the world around us.
Artwork Inspired by Original Invention Sketches: Every illustration in The Black Book is created by Hungry Minds artists, just as the original blueprints of forgotten inventions were once drawn by hand. These detailed visual spreads bring alternative machines, lost ideas, and imagined timelines to life with the feeling of a real artifact.
Coffee Table Book With Big Ideas: It is a premium object made for curious minds - a visual journey that rewards attention, conversation, and repeat discovery. The Black Book belongs on the desk, shelf, studio, or coffee table of anyone who enjoys big ideas, design, and imaginative exploration.
Luxury Gift for Thinkers, Makers & Dreamers: Perfect for adults, designers, engineers, inventors, artists, history lovers, and anyone fascinated by what humanity could have built. Give them a book about lost inventions, alternative futures, and the worlds we never got to see.