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"Objects and Prototypes" is a cross-disciplinary book category centered on the lives, meanings, and making of things—both finished artifacts and the experimental models that lead to them. It encompasses nonfiction about design, engineering, product development, industrial history, material culture, and the philosophy of objects, as well as fiction and memoirs that use objects or unfinished prototypes as narrative engines to explore creativity, failure, innovation, and human relationships to technology and craft. Books in this category examine how ideas become tangible through iteration, the social and cultural roles objects play, and the stories embedded in manufacturing, experimentation, and the maker process. Whether technical manuals, design case studies, museum catalogues, or speculative narratives about unrealized inventions, the focus is on the object as a site of inquiry—its form, function, evolution, and symbolic resonance.

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