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. You should call it “The New Yorker” book tour…. LOL, you’re pretty much ignoring The New Yorker’s “flyover country” totally.

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  2. Your hurricane map for Maine matches my experience. I lived just east of Bangor until I was 13. For us, Edna (1954) was the strongest storm. We were isolated for a few days because our road was washed out. Carol (also 1954) was considered stronger by most people but for us it was mostly a lot of rain. Ditto for Hazel (1954). Donna (1960) gave us a lot of rain and strong wind but wasn’t as strong as Edna.

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  5. im with sethery. what’s up with visiting only cities that are next to oceans?

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  7. Arrrghhhh…. Seattle’s town hall is sold out again. Apparently a month advance is an insufficient email reminder to get tickets.

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  8. Come to New Zealand. You wont be disappointed.

    Or don’t.

    Either way is basically on the way

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  12. If you slingshot around New York won’t you risk arriving on the left coast BEFORE your book is released? And if possible would you mind bringing a pair of humpback whales with you?

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  15. Pretty much ignoring “fly over” country is an understatement. Try some MN nice on for size next time

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  16. Why the coasts? You nibble at the crust before chomping down on the creamy center!

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  17. I can’t seem to find the date for Australia? Neither can my browser 😦 If there’s no Australia tour, well, the taipan might just claim it’s first human kill…

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  18. Again, Idaho State University and the Idaho National Laboratory is forgotten! Oh, woe is us! No one ever visits Pocatello!…hmm…maybe that’s the answer right there. I’ll tell the folks at our five local accelerators and the nuke reactor. But them there folks out at INL might not appreciate you ignoring Arco and Atomic City.

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  21. Why do we so often try to tell people we love them by complaining about them?

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  23. Seriously! I mean, I can understand ignoring my current domicile in Ohio because, let’s face it… but skipping my home town of Chicago ENTIRELY? Cambridge, yeah Harvard, la-di-da. New York, uh uh. Whatever. Seattle: Microsoft. Frisco: great town. Berkeley: Cal-Berkeley. LA: Huh?

    Chicago: Second City improv, UofC, Northwestern, FERMI LAB!!!!! (With their herd of I-kid-you-not albino deer) daBears, daCubs,daHawks, daBulls and some other teams. daFood! daMusic.

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  27. If you have time between SF and LA, San Luis Obispo is pretty much in the middle and would love to host you as well! We have a B&N, and a local shop called Phoenix Books, and with half the community consisting of Cal Poly students, I’m sure you’d have a good audience! Whatcha think?!

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  29. There is a distinct lack of Scotland on that road trip. Why the hell is that? Hey, i’d put you up – let me know if you need a webcam’d roomba tour prior to the visit.

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  30. I can’t believe your book tour complete skips over the Late Triassic. It was on your way! I know a couple of very disappointed Eoraptors.

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  31. A huge shame you ignored the middle of the country. There are lots of intelligent people here too; don’t let the media fool you. Why not try Huntsville, AL?

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  32. I’m surprised that the tour appears to be US-only, given that you’ve become well-known due to the internet and the internet knows no boundaries!

    Suggest that after Seattle/LA, you slingshot from them over the polar route,, visit our Scottish friend above, continue down to Birmingham UK (not London, or not JUST London, please! Sick to death of London-only stuff that excludes most of the rest of the UK), then slingshot again to the east to visit our European cousins. Unless the Continent is cut off from Britain by fog, of course, in which case you could simply add another day or two until the fog clears..

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  34. As a person who wishes you would have stopped in my town in the middle, I think the people complaining are idiots! Because how can you write good cartoons if you are stopping in 10,000 culturally inferior Podunks? Starting with the architecture? If we want smart people to visit us, we might want to try improving on the strip mall! Thank you for listening, fellow Podunkians!

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  35. Have the He Ballon sharks chased you from MA so quick you couldn’t stop at MIT?! What a shame.

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  36. It would be so great to see you at a book signing at my favorite book store in The Woodlands, Texas. It’s called Barnes’N Noble and The Woodlands would treat you real good. I’d buy you supper my own self. If you wait another month or two, it will drop down into the eighties at night and that’s almost comfortable. Please consider it.

    Love,

    Lisa-Marie Holomon

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  39. Contrary to popular opinion, Canada is actually quite not-unbelievably-freezing-cold this time of year.

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  43. this is not a book tour, it is a “I only give two shits about hipster havens” tour

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  46. What, you’re choosing densely populated locations with high book-buying averages, maximizing the impact of your appearances, while completely ignoring my hometown of X? I guess you think we’re idiots.

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  48. I wish you could have visited Tennessee. Chattanooga is a beautiful city and we would have welcomed you gladly. I have followed you as Col./Commander and as a singer. You did all with passion and graciousness. You will be remembered with great fondness. I hope your book tour turns out to be all you envisioned for it.

    This retired Nurse/retired owner/Sec. Treasurer of a textile company is a big fan and I hope you keep on sharing as we all can learn so much from you. Plus—we can all enjoy your music. Music soothes the soul the way an ocean, stream or lake does.

    Keep on writing and playing music.

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  49. Why are you not coming to Germany? Or at least somewhere near like Denmark, Netherlands, …

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  50. Your California drought chart naively accepts the state water board’s idea of a drought (which is: any year that a water shortage exists for residential users because the state doesn’t build dams to keep up with population increases and hasn’t built one at all since 1978!) Most of the last 20 years have thus been “droughts” even though there has been normal or above-normal rainfall during many of them.

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