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!”

  3. I’d bet college campuses with solid engineering/science programs would yield a strong turnout to a talk or Q&A(and a book tour).

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  6. Came to check to see if you’d be stopping in Austin, TX. Happy to see that I’m not the only one who would miss you. 🙂

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  7. Although I’ll be able to catch you in NY, you should really come to Austin too! Or at least go there on future tours (I’m moving there). 😀

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  8. Umm, total flyover of the real part of the country?? Ya Know, Denver would be the place to stop on your way back from the left coast to the left coast.

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  11. well, different country, but closer to the start distance wise than Austin and not quite as outlandish as New Zealand, have you considered Canada? I’m in Montreal (or at least will be in September once this internship is done) and know lots of people who would join in welcoming you. 4 Universities, two with great engineering programs ( Sorry Concordia and UQAM). If you felt like a pleasant detour…..

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  14. comment added to use the chance to mis-train the google “reCAPTCHA” make-humans-to-parse-numbers-on-photographs.

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  18. Thanks for the Hangout idea, would be quite a way from Germany – although definitely worth the time, if I had the money to spend 🙂

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  19. Looks like a very cool tour – excited to see your new book!

    For your next tour you should expand a little, I dunno, maybe Scotland. If you did that I’d have more thumbs ups for you than my body is able to give. A caring motherly hug as well if you’re into that.

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  21. Hi! What if I’m french and have no possibility for preordering a sign copy of your book? I checked on the harvard book store, you have to live in USA or Canada to get it. Seriously who lives there?
    Anyway I would be eternally grateful if you find a plausible scenario for me to get your book. And when I say eternity, I know such thing doesn’t exist, but I guarantee a minimum of 22 billions years, with possibility of warranty extension, depending of the exact date of the end of the universe. Hope it won’t be a sunday it’s my chill day.
    Thxkcd

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  24. Washington DC: several universities, NIST, NIH, NASA/Greenbelt, NSF, and then NSA and all that…

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  25. Eugene, Oregon would be an easy stopover between Seattle and San Francisco. And it’s also centrally located so both the Oregon State and OIT students can make the trip. Maybe even one of the Reed kids who works on their nuclear reactor.

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  26. Does this tour imply that the Plank length is greater than usually given. Only points on the coasts exist. Points on the third coast don’t exist.

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  27. Boulder is one of the startup capitals of the US. The CU campus had a quote from xkcd spray painted in one of the tunnels as graffiti. You should hit up Boulder, CO, or at least Denver.

    Poor middle of the country, we get forgotten so often.

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  30. No love for anyone who doesn’t live near an ocean? 😦

    Come to Salt Lake City – we have no ocean, but we have a very salty lake.

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  31. I came in to say “Austin”, but now that I see it’s already being adequately advocated for, let me be more specific: north Austin, ideally near the Pickle Research Campus, perhaps 7ish in the evening? By mid-September, it should be non-scorching outside about that hour, so outdoor venues would be an option.

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  37. How about a day trip from the hub of the universe to gun-wavin’ New Haven, CT?

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  40. I know a lot of people are writing stuff like this but…

    Second for Eugene, Oregon. I’m sure the University of Oregon physics nerds would appreciate a visit. Pleasoplease.

    Also, we have beer, neat bookstores, and did I mention beer?

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  41. You simply MUST come to Raleigh NC. NC State University, University of NC at Chapel Hill, and Duke University. Great high tech are where you are appreciated.

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  45. No love for the flyover states. I guess this is why they’re called flyover. Kansas City could be worth a stop.

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  46. You could go to Denver, Colorado! I’m From Cheyenne, but Denver would be better. I’d go!

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