Observed arrival · 2026-11-01
Fun Books: Wholesome Guides for Unwholesome Times
An illustrated book project presents 1950s-style how-to guides for emergencies both practical and preposterous, from storing water to hosting a Martian.
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- Readers who enjoy retro-styled survival guides and domestic sci-fi comedy
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- The featured time-travel book promises 60 polite skills, each fitted onto a painted page, in a 96-page paperback marked coming soon.
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The bookshelf mixes domestic preparedness with deliberately unruly subjects, including alien invasions, a zombie neighborhood, and a dinosaur in the backyard. The site describes each guide as a sequence of single-skill illustrated pages, and its featured time-travel volume lists 60 polite skills across 96 full-color pages. That paperback is marked coming soon; the extract does not clarify how the titles labeled on the shelf are obtained.
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