What If book tour!

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My book, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, comes out September 2nd (Pre-order: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, IndieBound), and I’m excited to announce that I’ll be going on a book tour!

Here’s the event list:


Tuesday, September 2
CAMBRIDGE, MA
Harvard Book Store at Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle St.
6:00pm (Seating is limited) – Note: this event is now sold out! But, you can still pre-order a signed copy (link below).
Tickets: $26 tickets on sale August 12 at 9am ET, includes one book, one seat.
More details: http://www.harvard.com/event/randall_munroe/
Pre-order a limited number of signed copies of What If? from Harvard Book Store.

Friday, September 5
NEW YORK, NY
Barnes & Noble – Union Square
33 E 17th St.
7:00pm
Open event, seating is first come first serve.
More details: http://store-locator.barnesandnoble.com/event/84245

Tuesday, September 9
SEATTLE, WA
Town Hall Seattle
1119 8th Ave.
7:30pm
Seating is limited – Note: this event is now sold out!
Tickets: $5, one seat
More details: http://www.townhallseattle.org/randall-munroe-answering-what-if/

Wednesday, September 10
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
The Booksmith at Public Works
161 Erie St.
7:30pm
Seating is limited – Note: this event is now sold out!
Tickets: $34 includes one book, general admission; $20 general admission
The bar at Public Works will be serving drinks before, during, and after the program. This event is necessarily limited to people 21 and older.
More details: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/772183

Thursday, September 11
BERKELEY, CA
Berkeley Arts & Lectures at the Hillside Club
2286 Cedar St.
7:30pm
Seating is limited – Note: this event is now sold out!
Tickets: $10 with student ID; $15 general admission
More details: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/772197

Friday, September 12
Google+ Hangout On Air moderated by Hank Green
Location: Online/Various
3:30pm PT/ 6:30pm ET
Note: Anyone can view the Hangout live on YouTube (Friday, 9/12, 3:30pm PT), but only 4-6 xkcd readers will be selected using this form  to participate and ask questions within the Hangout itself. Apply for a chance to participate in the Hangout by Monday, August 25.

Sunday, September 14
LOS ANGELES, CA
Live Talks LA
An afternoon with Randall Munroe
The Aero Theatre
1328 Montana Avenue
Santa Monica
4:30pm
Seating is limited
Tickets: $43 includes one book, one reserved seat; $20 general admission
More details: http://livetalksla.org/blog/2014/07/13/september-14-randall-munroe/

Hope to see you there!

1,116 replies on “What If book tour!”

  1. OK now there are DEFINITELY more votes for London than anywhere else. (I’m counting the request for SE England in that too.) (But not the one for Yorkshire.)

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  5. Seems to be an error in your tour itinerary, you’ve forgotten to put in Ireland/Britain 😛

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  7. Yes, the UK is curiously absent from that itinerary. Oxford would be perfect but I’d settle for London.

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  13. Please stay in the US. You comics and books are great, but I wouldn’t know why I would like to see you, and I have a pretty strong suspicion that feeling is mutual. Furthermore it isn’t going to reduce your carbon footprint, and as scientist aren’t it facts that should guide our actions.
    So keep drawing and writing, I ll keep buying!

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  15. Please please please come to London. Please. Pretty please with a cherry on top and sprinkles and silver balls.

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  16. I feel the focus on London is far too great.

    Now Bristol, on the other hand …

    Based on these comments, the next What If question could be “What if the UK disappeared? Would the number of hits on XKCD go down to 0?”

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  20. I’d love to see you in Chicago, but I’m studying abroad in England at the moment, so go there! Dooooo it! (Doesn’t really matter where, it’s all pretty close together. English people get freaked out by travel that takes more than two hours, but for Americans that would be within acceptable day trip range.)

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  21. Dude! You forgot to put Northern Kentucky on the list.
    We have the Creation Museum. There is a guy riding a dinosaur. In a museum! And a recreation of the Ark.

    Come for the laughs at least. Bill Nye did.

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  22. What. No Boise? Idaho needs some book love to. Think of it as a way stop between NY and Seattle

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  24. We love your work out here in Des Moines, Iowa and the rest of flyover country USA too, you know 😀

    Maybe next time?

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  29. We smart in Cleveland. You visit us maybe? 🙂 Love the site, would love for you to come to our fair city.

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  30. I realize there is very little reason for you to come to Oklahoma. Almost none. But if you were to find yourself in the great Midwest, you could totally sleep at my house. I would come pick you up at the airport, and bring all four of the people in this state who have seen your comic book to your signing. Also, we have a sweet pool, which is sort of like taking a cold bath with other people. Strike that. We have beer. But it’s mostly low point alcohol. Crap. I need to move.

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  31. Robin V (above) is on to something: best “What if?” topic in a while, AND a chance to merge xkcd with one of Billy’s circuitous routes home from Family Circus. Added request? Poster-ize the answer!

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  32. How about Chicago – Des Moines – Omaha – Denver? Pizza, Pork Chops, Steak, and Beer….

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  33. This is gonna sound strange, I know, but it turns out there’s a VAST area between the two coasts, populated by literally MILLIONS of sentient beings. A sizable portion of these creatures would appreciate having some of their major metropolitan centers included on the tour, as they have not yet mastered instantaneous travel across long distances.

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  34. Well, every time I meet someone here in Dallas who also reads webcomics, they go down the list of must reads that invariably ends with, “…and of course XKCD”
    COME TO TEXAS! WE HAVE…oh wait. Don’t come in August, but do come sometime!

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  36. If your book tour will interrupt the XKCD posting schedule, I ask that you reconsider.

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  38. I’m not going to pretend it makes any logistical or financial sense, but you should swing up to Maine sometime. I’m sure someone besides me would come to a book signing assumying you don’t get carried away by mosquitos, attacked by moose, or bored of the endless pine trees along I-95 first.

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  39. Pennsylvania! (I know…. it’s close to NY…. but it’s the place of your origin!)

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  40. I notice you are going nowhere south of the Mason-Dixon line. There is an enclave of literacy in Asheville, NC (birthplace of Thomas Wolfe, so it can’t be all that bad) and a bookstore named Malaprops, which should appeal to you. If you do not come here we shall all be sorely vexed.

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  41. I realize that changing your tour locations at this particular juncture is likely impractical, but I’ll second Gary B’s request for NC. Asheville is certainly nice, but venturing by the Raleigh way there’s also Quail Ridge Books which I’ve seen Jasper Fforde, Orson Scott Card (prior to his rampant homophobia), and John Scalzi at. The research triangle area here has a lot of your fans. If not this tour, then please consider it for the next one.

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  42. Not all of us in the south are dirt clod throwing inbred banjo playing lard fried fools. You should come visit. Charlotte NC.

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  45. Come to Prague! I don’t know if many people here (besides me) would buy your book…. but if you’re already touring places, you might as well add Prague to your list. It’s ridiculously cool.

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  46. Well if you’re going to London a short hop over to Bristol as well is hardly anything. It’s like 2 hours away tops!

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  48. Clayton in Northeast New Mexico has lots of dinosaur tracks for you to follow. Stop here and we will gladly show them to you. We would even buy a book or two!

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  49. My wife and I love your site. In fact I bought her one of your signed comics! We live in Chicago now and would love to have you stop here as part of your tour!

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  50. All the unbiased* facts** say come to Chicago!

    *This is a lie.
    **There are none.***

    ***Well that’s not true. Chicago is pretty cool from an engineer’s perspective. Lots of movable bridges (which smell like chocolate), the largest set of man-made tunnels in the world (to drain sewage), big buildings, a river that runs backwards (also to drain sewage), and a lakefront made out of the burned rubble of our city! Plus a giant german U-boat stored in a huge concrete vault.

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