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. Even if some of us* _are_ “dirt clod throwing”, “banjo playing”, and “lard fried”, you should still come visit. Charlotte NC.

    *Note: I promise to not throw dirt clods at you or anyone else, nor will I subject you to any banjo playing since I don’t own and can’t play a banjo (although I do think it would be fun to learn). I will however be glad to take you to the many places where the lard fried food is excellent.

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  5. You could swing by Southern Oregon (likely Medford, specifically) on the morning of September 10th. It’s right between Seattle and San Francisco. Sure, you might have a direct flight but we even have an airport that flies to both of those cities! You could do a “Breakfast with Randall” at the local Barnes and Nobel or Southern Oregon University down in Ashland.

    Just sayin’ . . .

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  7. You would be more than welcome in Minneapolis. Plenty of nerds and geeks here (and yes, the distinction between the two is important to us).

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  9. I second the request for stopping in Minneapolis! Heck, you are skipping the entire middle of the country! Wonderful culture here for both nerds and geeks. 🙂

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  14. C’mon, please: Germany. Or at least some country not divided by a hectozillion tons of salt water (and yes, I know, this is not one scientifically approvable definition. We can discuss that in person – when you’ll be booktouring in the old world, over here).

    Make a somehow grown-up girl happy.

    Oh well: Thanks, at any rate…

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  15. Going from New York to Seattle is a HUGE jump, considering most the the US is between.

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  16. Powells++
    Come for the books, stay for the beer, food, weather (little-known fact: Portland in September is glorious; warm, sunny, and cloudless), and Fred & Carrie.

    I lived in Cambridge for 12 years and still miss it, but Portland in September is better.

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  17. Chicago is NOT fly-over country. We’d love to have you stop somewhere in Chicago or Evanston!

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  19. Any chance you could add another day in Seattle? It’s all sold out already. 😦

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  20. Houston! Lots of science going on here. We deal in dinosaurs daily, grave to atmosphere.

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  23. I know better than to say that I wish you were stopping somewhere in the Michigan/Indiana area, because I know we get missed by all this kind of stuff, but I will hope that I can see you in the night sky as you slingshot around NY, since that may bring you as close as anyone gets to the Midwest.

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  26. Macon, Ga. is the birthplace of the kazoo. I’m certain that fact will cause you to alter your itinerary appropriately.

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  27. I second Germany. Berlin, to be more specific 🙂 Since there is a German translation of your book, why not have the publisher house fly you over so you can see with your own eyes how everybody here wears Lederhosen all the time (even girls), synchronously playing foosball and drinking beer (while commuting to work).

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  28. I have to second Nick’s request. Please come to Charlotte! I can also promise that there will be no banjo playing from my household, and will bring cookies.

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  29. If you don’t come to Texas, I’ll….well, I’ve got nothing to hold over you.
    Wait: I’ve got it! I’ll walk the long path around parking lots from now on, is what I’ll do!

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  30. If it’s a paid tour, then the schedule is completely fixed and essentially immutable. If so, it makes me sad. And you should negotiate for more of the middle of America with the next book.

    If possible, please visit the middle of America. I’m in St. Louis and that’s sometimes a stopover. The person advocating Chicago has a better chance, as flights tend to go through there more than St. Louis.

    But going with the coastal meme is ignoring what I suspect is the majority of your readers, and won’t play out well in the long run…

    Best of luck with the book!

    Brian

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  31. Unfortunately it seems I will not be able to occupy the same space-time coordinates as any of your tour stops.

    I’ll be sure to tune into your live show though. You got a good moderator, I am a big fan of Hank Green’s work on Youtube.

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  32. Please, please, please come to Chicago or Evanston. I’ll bring you a pizza!

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  33. +1 Houston!

    But I think the big question is how many cities with disappointed fans are there going to be where the population of the city is equal to or greater than the answer to this question? 😉

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  34. One more request for Minnesota! C’mon! I’ll buy you a new stick of deodorant!

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  35. Dude, this was your chance to write off a world trip as a taxable expense.

    Should’ve started with Cambridge, England; Edinburgh; Helsinki; Berlin; Zurich; Tokyo; Sydney.

    Shoulda gone to Loncon.

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  37. For future stops, consider Dallas, TX. I guarantee all book depositories and grassy knolls will be free of assassins and raptors. And especially free of raptor assassins.

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  38. You should swing by Spokane. We’re like Seattle, except completely different. Still technically in Washington, though…

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  40. Well, since we’re all making silly requests, I say come to Springfield Missouri. There would probably only be three of us (me, my friend, my brother), but I make some pretty good tea and a mean chicken cordon blue (I light it on fire, it’s the fire that makes it taste good. I mean, why not flambé chicken wrapped ham and cheese?)

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  41. While you’re in the neighborhood (more or less), you should stop by Richmond, VA. Our town has some major universities, some others are just down the road, and we have a thriving arts/crafts/techie scene. Good food, too! Could probably get you free space at the Science Museum of Virginia, which is probably the coolest place in town!

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  43. Sure pass right over baltimore comic con on sept 5, 6 and 7 th. I see that you are in nyc on the 5th . But why not at a big event maybey the 6th or 7th?

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  44. You should absolutely come to Phoenix….but really not in the summer (aka May-October).

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  45. There is absolutely no reason to come to Arizona, my best advice to you is not to do it. Still…a part of me wishes that you would.

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  47. Please, Midwest… Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Lansing or Detroit in MI. South Bend, Ft. Wayne or Indianapolis in IN. Chicago Metro area, Champain-Urbana in IL. Milwalkie, WI.

    lots of us around here would love to see you…

    Blair

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  48. Ugh drive all the way into the city for a book signing? You should go to suburban B&Ns like Eatontown, NJ!

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  50. Please let me know your planned route through CT so I can set up sufficient roadblocks to secure an autograph.

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