Looking for a book where is main character who is inventor

[Ondrej]

I'm looking for book in which main character builds or invents new things. It can be either fantasy or sci-fi. I could not find such books. I read only Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain and Tinker but i like books where MC invents and then use his invention. I want to thank zou beforehand for your replies. :D

[Pete]

Without suggesting anything specific, you could take a look at SF writers of the 1950's - 60's. Heinlein and the like. People pottering in their back yards making strange stuff that somehow worked, using just scrap.

There is one tale I'd love to re-read, if only I could find it, from that era. A man was captured by Aliens (who could remarkably speak English??) and his only 'weapon' was a paper clip. He was very inventive in its use, because the aliens didn't know what it was. A highly amusing tale.

[Aaron]

Confessions of a D-List Supervillain. Really any superhero fiction that has a tinker power spectrum main character is gonna be this way.

I was going to recommend checking out what I call empire building as people who like what your looking for tend to love those as well and found out that you already found them. But you havn't read the Safehold series Off Armageddon Reef yet you should get on that.

I could also recommend some of the light novels.
入学編(上) - Enrollment Chapter (I) really come to mind. Warning on Mahouka is that it's all over the place in quality. Normally I would also warn against overwhelming levels of suedom but I'm reading the series starting with A Soldier's Duty and you gave that 5 stars so I assume that's a non issue as long as it's cool enough.

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A really old one is John W. Campbell's The Ultimate Weapon. It's short on characterization, but I enjoyed the story.

[LaTrica]

Newton's Cannon by Greg Keyes has Ben Franklin and Newton as characters. They invent a lot of lot of things and then help save the world.

[Michele]

There's the Girl Genius series by Kaja and Phil Foglio, about a girl who invents all kinds of steampunky gadgets. They are a lot of fun, but not super detailed on how she builds them.

Agatha H and the Airship City is the first book

[Silvio]

Sheffield's McAndrew stories are very focused on the physicist/inventor protagonist in a hard science fiction kind of way.

[Ondrej]

Thanks for the tips i'm alredy looking into them. But there is book about world where everyone can use magic but main character and he can invent things. I don't know how it's called but i would appreciate if you can help me with it.

[Louise]

What about 'the accidental sorcerer' by K.E. Mills? It's the first book in a trilogy where a poor wizard ends up in a different world but I seem to remember he ends up solving most things through technology although I could be wrong!

[Louise]

What about 'the accidental sorcerer' by K.E. Mills? It's the first book in a trilogy where a poor wizard ends up in a different world but I seem to remember he ends up solving most things through technology although I could be wrong!

[Philip]

My light-hearted science fiction story, Klubbe the Turkle and the Golden Star Coracle, is the biography of an inventor called Klubbe, who lives with his fellow turkles on the planet, Ankor. First he invents the first flying craft on his planet, the Golden Star Coracle, then the first submarine, the Oceanplodder. Later, his son, Orbito, invents the first air balloon. In his middle age, Klubbe builds a city on the ocean floor, called the Ocean Jewel Aqua City. So my new book is certainly about an inventor. It should be published before the end of April, 2015. I hope you do not mind me writing about my own book, but it may be the kind of book you are looking for. Here is the blurb I wrote for the back cover of my book:
"On the planet Ankor, Klubbe the turkle lives as a hermit. A marine mishap inspires him to be an inventor. His inventions and explorations change his life, his entire planet.
Turkles are close cousins of turtles. Unlike them, they have yellow golden skin and back shells, walk on their hind legs, have the gift of language, and the ability to create their own culture.
The life of Klubbe may read like a light-hearted science fiction story, but it actually happened to him. Princess Corka thinks his invention is sublime. Ubbtosh, the pyramid priest, promises to guide him to the core of the cosmos. In space, there are no sign posts, he finds, but there are other beings. And on Ankor, there are mysteries to be solved. Is the Great Glom more than a myth? And what about the Great Archy Eopta?"

[Trike]

Ondrej wrote: "Thanks for the tips i'm alredy looking into them. But there is book about world where everyone can use magic but main character and he can invent things. I don't know how it's called but i would ap..."

That sounds like Jim Butcher's Furies of Calderon, where everyone can do magic except the main character.

[Enjee]

This is an old one, but I remember it forty years later:
Robots Have No Tails

[Dj]

Michele wrote: "There's the Girl Genius series by Kaja and Phil Foglio, about a girl who invents all kinds of steampunky gadgets. They are a lot of fun, but not super detailed on how she builds them.

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Any Plan that Destroys your Hat, is a bad Plan.

[Dj]

Ondrej wrote: "Thanks for the tips i'm alredy looking into them. But there is book about world where everyone can use magic but main character and he can invent things. I don't know how it's called but i would ap..."

Sounds a little like a spell for Chameleon.

[Toppenman]

Laurence Dahners - all his books
William E. Brown - Daniel Black books

[Michael]

Warp Speed by Travis S Tailor. A hard sci-fi book about a scientist who designs and builds a warp drive.

[Mark]

Rough Magick fits the bill. The main character is gnomish inventor and she is in dispute with the guild of inventors.

[Micah]

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming?

**snicker**

It was honestly the first one to come to mind. A childhood favorite. Dad used to read it to me and my bros at Christmastime.

[Dj]

In the Roman Cycle of the Percy Jackson books, one of the 'main' characters, there is a group of three. Is an inventor. A child of Hepesteus (sp?).