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. … these must be the beginning stops of your world tour 2014/15, right? xkcd ftw

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  6. Why are you in Seatlle when I’ll be in San Francisco, and in San Francisco when I’ll be in Seattle?

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  7. But Portland has really good doughnuts! and OMSI! AND POWELL’S! You should stop in Portland, on a Tuesday.

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  9. Gah!
    This guy is giving up his time and talent to tour and come see you, and all you can do is complain that he’s not coming to where you are?!

    I live in England and have been reading this webcomic throughout my whole adult life – I can’t even submit a form to ask him questions during a Google hangout as I don’t live in America.

    Do I wish I could see him?
    Of course I do.
    Am I going to bitch and moan about how I can’t?
    No.

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  10. Florida has nice beaches (google Seaside,Fl.). Check out the website above- typically you stay a week, create some art, get a tan and lecture/sell books at the end all on Seasides tab.

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  11. Why aren’t you visiting MARS (the McGill Arctic Research station)? With a bit more angular velocity from your NYC slingshot it’d be a cinch.

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  13. I note that each venue is constrained by limited seating. If you do visit a fly-over state, we will provide a venue where seating can grow without bound.

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  14. What about us in the rest of THE WHOLE WORLD!?!?!?? I just started working, my goal is to buy your book, then I will quit and go to the forest and survive using nothing but the info you provided in the book xD

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  15. Any chance of you every coming to the Dallas/Ft. Worth area? I would LOVE it if you could come down here!

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  17. St. Louis? Come on, all we got is beer and baseball, and some weird cheese called “Provel.” Don’t let us survive on beer and weird cheese alone!

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  18. That’s neither where I am (Canada) nor where I was or might be (Alaska). Sadness.

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  23. Too bad you’re not going to be in Chicago. I’d give you a tour of Fermilab. You could visit the Tev.

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  24. I will make sure you have a beer called “Rotten Grainwater” if you stop in Portland, aka beervana…

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  26. So… when does that course bring you to Hamburg, Germany…? (We do have some particle accelerators and they are building a 2.1 km long superconducting linear accelerator for a laser right now, over at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESY – in case you get bored on your book tour)

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  27. New York provides so much gravitational acceleration that velocities are too high for the cultures of Midwestern cities to substantially affect, much less capture. Aerobraking at Seattle obviously permits entry to the complex three-body of San Fran, Berkeley and LA. It would require a great deal of book-tour fuel to escape that gravicultural well and return, much less to continue on across interPacific space to other systems…..

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  30. Am I the only one who see’s an issue with the fact that his first stop is Harvard and not MIT?

    I guess when I picked up the book from the MIT bookstore I figured he was an MIT man.

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  31. Suggestion for your next book tour – the Seminary Co-op Bookstore in Chicago, next to the University of Chicago http://www.semcoop.com/
    Possibly the best scholarly bookstore in the United States; certainly far better than anything in NYC.

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  32. You should have a stop in Newport News / Norfolk / Virginia Beach. Not that I have a ton of CNU alum pride, but there are still plenty of us in the area.

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  36. More of a geographic fold than a slingshot… just fold up the US and step from NY to WA (after all who cares about the middle bit?)

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  38. Peter on August 4, 2014 at 10:37 pm said:
    I note that each venue is constrained by limited seating. If you do visit a fly-over state, we will provide a venue where seating can grow without bound.

    The real question on this one is – if a fly-over state truly has a venue that can grow without bound, how long would it take and how many people would have to visit before you already were interacting with people on the east and west coast?

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  39. Yeah! What Tim said:
    “St. Louis? Come on, all we got is beer and baseball, and some weird cheese called “Provel.” Don’t let us survive on beer and weird cheese alone!”

    Come to “fly over country!”

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  40. But wait!? What about Minneapolis!?!??! It’s warm here right now, you know? You don’t even have to ice fish on our lakes at this time of year!

    We have fish! We could give you fish!

    Sigh.

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  41. Ryan on August 4, 2014 at 2:18 pm said:
    Way to completely skip the middle of America. 😦

    Ryan, that is why the call us “The fly-over states”

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  42. Seating in Seattle all sold out quickly…this does not bode well for my getting a standby ticket the day of. =^/

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  45. Thursday, September 4
    CAMBRIDGE, MA
    Harvard Book Store at Brattle Theatre
    40 Brattle St.
    6:00pm (Seating is limited)
    Tickets: $26 tickets on sale August 12 at 9am ET, includes one book, one seat.
    More details: http://www.achelandoor.com/
    Pre-order a limited number of signed copies of What If? from Harvard Book Store.

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  47. Hello , The real question on this one is – if a fly-over state truly has a venue that can grow without bound, how long would it take and how many people would have to visit before you already were interacting with people on the east and west coast?

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  49. You should visit the greater DC Metro area. The politicians downtown cause weather inversions because of excessive hot air that is generated around the Capitol. This low pressure zone, along with the giant sucking sound emanating from parts of the Bureaucracy should enable you to deflect your trajectory to Northern Virginia or Suburban Maryland on your return from the left coast…

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  50. Get your arse over to Ireland – your comic strips keeps me going during the week 🙂

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