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. I am happy to inform you that velociraptors cannot survive Canadian winter, except in BC, those sissies. You will be safe here! We will give you maple syrup and a pet polar bear!

    Montreal has more geeks and nerds than you can shake a stick at.

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  2. You have completely over looked the Southern part of the United States. Some of read and write down here.

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  8. Contrary to popular belief, there is an entire landmass between the coasts where humans dwell. Look it up.

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  9. Right. It’s called Boulder, Colorado. There are many, many nerds per capita here, as well as Nobel laureates in physics and chemistry.

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  10. It seems like every time you “officially” visit NYC, it’s on Shabbos! If you push the event back a few hours, it’d be a great way to celebrate my birthday! I’ll even share my cake! It’ll be kosher…

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  12. You don’t have to worry about velociraptors in Washington, DC – they’re afraid of the lobbyists. Also, the lawyers keep the land sharks and tree squid away.

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  14. Ouch, no mid-west? Not even Minneapolis or Duluth? The North Shore Hipsters would love you!

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  20. Ah!!!

    A book tour is pretty cool

    All those locations are roughly the same distance from where I am though sadly.

    You need to come down to Australia!!

    It’d look interesting on your map too *Random US location 1*, etc etc Australia!!!

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  23. I don’t see any way around this, I guess I’ll have to find an apartment in the Seattle area, and somehow acquire transportation from my future neighbor by obtaining her trust and getting a spare set of keys before the 9th. Would it be unethical at this point to spend the 5 dollars I found in her mailbox for my seat? Hey Sarah’s grandparents, that’s barely enough to send you a “thank you” card. Next year ditch the card and stamp, send an email and drop the full $8.35 in my Paypal account, its 2014.

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  26. When you hit one of the coasts; please consider the possibility that life may exist on other continents. Over this side of one of those ponds lies Europe for example 🙂

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  27. Why does nobody ever visit our beautiful Tattoine? That’s so ignorant. We even have two suns!

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  31. will endeavor to build for you an entire fleet of leaf boats for your not-inconsequential voyage up the mississippi to foster numerous excursions upon terra firma
    seating will be limited
    twain much?

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  33. Come to DC. It’s so close to New York, and there are plenty of faux-hipsters to enjoy…

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  34. Seriously, folks –

    Randall’s wife is in remission, which http://xkcd.com/931/ tells us is not forever. That graph is 6 years, 50% survival rate. Mean time to losing his wife forever is 600 weeks, and he will be gone almost two of them. If I was in Boston with my dearest only, I would never leave, not for two weeks, and certainly not for enough weeks to go all the places people want him to go.

    Yes, I’m lucky – I’m in Portland, Seattle is 6 hours round trip by car, and I scored some tickets. I would still be lucky if Randal only appeared in a stadium in LA, and I flew down for that.

    I bet he would make one more appearance at TD Garden in Boston, if 19,000 of us flew in for that. Which would be absurdly awesome. We could build a huge robotic pantograph so he could sign 100 books at once, and set the world record for a book signing.

    Equally awesomely, we could set up an internet-connected robotic pantograph and he could appear by live video feed in 100 bookstores around the world simultaneously. From home, in his bathrobe. Mythic.

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  35. Note: Seattle, WA show is already sold out because town hall decided to only offer 500 tickets in order to have a more intimate environment.

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  37. Addressed to you in this case, but also the world in general: If you are holding an event online (eg: Google Hangout) please give the time in GMT too, it makes conversion easier for those of us wanting to attend from overseas

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  38. PS: for anyone reading this later:
    15:30:00 Friday September 12, 2014 in US/Pacific converts to
    22:30:00 Friday September 12, 2014 in GMT

    Not sure if this is relevant, but Daylight Saving Time is in effect on this date/time in US/Pacific

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  39. How about ‘accidentally’ returning to the wrong Cambridge? There are lots of xkcd fans in the UK and we have two Cambridges for you to aim for (although one is much bigger and geek infested than the other).

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  41. Isn’t Paris, France scheduled on your tour? I’m not planning to cross that wet ocean before a few years…

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  42. Good luck with your book tour! I wish there was something closer to me (say, Austin, TX), but I’m certain your trip will be a success even without my attendance.

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  45. Yes! I cannot wait for the Google Hangout with two of my favorite people: Hank Green and Randall Munroe!

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  49. Toronto! We could use a position influence after the recent political crack epidemic…

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  50. Thank you, Keith Lofstrom, for that reality check.
    Thank you, Randall, for everything you’ve shared with us. You’ve brought untold joy. Blessings on you and your dearest only.

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