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. Come to London! I sent this while drunk on a train far underground. It’s the future!

    p.s. Any UK city will do!

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  3. My son’s birthday is coming up soon and I haven’t got him a present. Could I please have 500 free copies to sell so as to afford an Amazon gift voucher.
    Um, please.

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  4. I will second Michael’s suggestion for Vero beach Florida. I know a number of people who would attend and a nice independent book store that often hosts these events.

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  5. You should come to D.C. before you head to the West Coast. You have a massive following at Georgetown, George Washington, and American; the students in this city would trip over themselves running to see you.

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  6. PLEASE come to Denver Colorado!
    The Tattered Cover bookstore is a fantastic locally owned bookstore that would be a great stop!
    : o )

    Just sayin.
    Anytime would be good.

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  8. You’re going to 6 cities in the same country! My country doesn’t even have 6 cities!

    (*yes it does. It has 12.)

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  10. I second the vote for D.C. Lots of colleges with auditoria to use and scads of over-educated dorks that love your blogs.

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  11. I cant possibly imagine why Medicine Hat, Alberta is not on your calender.

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  12. Believe it or not, Louisville, KY has a great independent/weird streak, and I’m sure Carmichael’s bookstores would be happy to host something like this in the future
    *hint hint* 😉

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  13. I’d be at that Santa Monica event in a heartbeat but I’m out of town that weekend 😦

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  14. Awwww no casein stops? Not even tronto you do have fans us here and it’s just a hour flight from NYC to Pearson airport. Just conider it….

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  15. Canadien why does spell check on my iPad think canadien is wrong. I fixed it in the last post to something else.

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  16. I second (3rd, 5th, 7th, 11th?) the plea for a Colorado stop. The flyover country still has local bookstores, including in my own town of Boulder. How quaint! You know you want it. 🙂

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  17. Chicago is so sad…wait, I mean *Illinois* is sad….wait..what, the entire Midwest? Really? You have to actually pass through to get from New York to Washington. Well, Great Circle might take you a bit north, but you know what I mean.

    That’s all we are to you, aren’t we – connecting space you would rather not be in the way.

    Sigh.

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  18. DO NOT EVER think of coming to Serbia. We are cannibals.
    We eat smart foreigners for breakfast, and funny ones for dinner.

    You’d give us headache when trying to decide what course do you belong.

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  19. The Deepest, Darkest Swamps of Florida (aka America’s Massive Hangin’ Wang) needs you…Help us xkcd….you’re our only hope…

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  20. If getting to the UK could be arranged I’m sure you’d have many grateful fans.

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  21. I loved your comic “Cold” published during winter (http://xkcd.com/1321/). At the time, I put a comment to my FB friends:
    “Ahem, yes, it’s cold at the moment. But, following this comic focused on the low temperatures of winter, I would guess that 100+ degree F days (in summer) are on the increase, too.”

    So here’s a suggestion: Maybe it is about time to release a comic called “Hot” dedicated the same issue?

    And how about another called “Random” that focuses on extreme changes different locales experience?

    I’m a true fan. Keep up the great work! -Blair

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  22. sold out! your show in san francisco is sold out already! shoot. i just checked for tickets. er, since you’ll already be here, maybe you could just do a second show? it’ll be fun 🙂

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  23. I hate that the south always gets shafted like this … its like people actually believe is true everywhere in the south.

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  25. I live in the UK, but I can recommended Bolen’s Books in Victoria, BC Canada as a great place to meet your readers, lots of geekery there and do great meet the author/book signing events.

    As I’m from NZ, I’ll just be amazed if you make it that far south but Otago University packs halls for visiting authors.

    🙂

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  26. You know, you have a _*HUGE*_ readership here in Germany and since our continent isn’t so freaking huge (but more densely populated) like yours you could meet even more readers here with the same amount of events.

    How about the Chaos Communication Congress in December? Huh? HUH? Come on! That be cool! (Its in Hamburg between the years)

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  27. Please come to the UK or at least hang fire on a DC trip until Easter… It’s lovely that time of year 🙂

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  28. San Francisco and Berkeley but not the South Bay? There are 7,000,000 folks in the Bay Area and you are dissing most of them … including the nerds of Silicon Valley. Of course, I guess with popularity comes lunch at the “cool” kid’s table…. meh, I’ll still be buying a copy… but next time, remember us!

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  29. oooh, can you see if the Bookshop Santa Cruz (in Santa Cruz California) will host you on either side of the SFBA dates?

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  31. You should come down closer to the south!! You missed all of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, and the rest…. (I can’t think of any more)

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  32. Louisville would indeed be fine, and while you’re at it, Gnashville is only a short hop south, and would be more than fine too.

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  33. Fuck! Nothing in Toronto? Canada? seriously? We love you up here in America’s hat.

    Everyone forgets about us 😦

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  34. So stoked. Unfortunately, you tour the NE section of the US. Then go to the SE section of the US. Perhaps a Chicago stop could be added. It would probably be economically feasible than going to New Netherlands.

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  35. Hello, Randall, just a minor report on the What If site.
    the topic was a bit unclear, I was lost when I jumped in from your web comic page and was completely at loss 😛

    “What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions”
    This is really suggestion but I really liked it could we put this as a subtitle?

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  38. Pittsburgh! Geekhome. Carnegie Mellon University bookstore, talk in McConomie Auditorium (huge, probably not large enough to accommodate your fan base, but we can’t always manage perfection).

    I only ask that if you decide to do this, I would like you to guarantee me a ticket.

    (Google has a huge facility here as well, several hundred geeks)

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  39. If you stay in the Northern hemisphere, you risk unbalancing our planet with potentially dire consequences for our orbit, our climate and our biodiversity.

    To balance this, I recommend Perth, Australia. It has various positive features, ranging from no US airlines to nice weather.

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  40. Sigh, no UK stop, as is typical for these kinds of things – though I did kinda hope for better from you! Regardless, I hope the stops you are making go off with great success.

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  42. Please take a side trip to Vancouver, BC when you’re in Seattle so I can buy a book from you

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  43. Visit Australia!

    For the last 12 years (after the bans on electricity and printed word were lifted) Australia has produced tens of literate people (well over 260!), and witch burning is almost a thing of the past (we now dissolve them in acid). Of the at least 3000 survivors still living on the abandoned island prison, many of those not currently roaming the desert in dune buggies and wearing spiked pauldrons (as seen in the documentary series ‘Mad Max’) would love your book, and not just because of the desperate lack of fuel for the furnaces that appease ‘that whose name we dare not speak, the source of all shadow who reigned before time and who guards the forever from the great pit of night and madness’ at the continent’s centre.

    And yes, google chrome, I wrote centre, ending with re. The blood you use to underline the supposed violations of your fascist spelling laws came from my ancestors, and shall be repaid 1000 fold!

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  44. Eh. Just use skype and have an autopen mailed from city to city. Book tour from your living room! And the autopen can remember your signature so your book tour can continue without you, thus giving a practical scientific answer to the hypothetical: what is the least amount of energy and time needed to maximise a worldwide book tour within the known universe?

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  47. Couldn’t you just swing by ontario for a bit? anywhere in ontario, I’d be amazing.

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  49. I live in the Kansas City area, but I would be willing to drive as far as Omaha for a signed copy (including St. Louis, Des Moines, and maybe even Denver). Spare us a thought as you jet-set your way over us.

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