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!
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EUROPE EUROPE EUROPE EUROPE EUROPE EUROPE! please!
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OK, Brisbane, that concludes the East coast of Australia. Perfect weather, beautiful people, Gold Coast, Great Barrier Reef … fine, scrap that, I will take you out to a couple of great places for a beer!
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Don’t listen to those other guys; Europe and Australia are too far away. Do come to Atlanta, though.
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you know, the book and planning the book tour seem to be distracting you from what’s important – the weekly what-if!! I am in withdrawal – hook a brother up!!
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I would just like to point out that New Zealand is an actual place, unlike Atlanta which was clearly made up by the previous commenter.
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What if you came to DC and 1% of the region’s 9.3 million nerd-friendly people converged on Politics & Prose to see you?
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I see how it is. Ignore the whole middle of the country…
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Or you could come check out Canada instead. Ottawa does have the highest number of PhDs per capita in Canada and has one of the higher per capitas of engineers, scientists, and PhDs.
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Come to Britain. No! wales, No! Welshpool.
We have a WH Smith shop.
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I guess there is nothing in between the East coast and West Coast… Ever heard of Nashville, Atlanta, St. Louis, Houston, Phoenix?!?
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No Midwest stops? Chicago is nice, we have a really big lake. It’s pretty great.
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Once in Europe – which seems pretty unavoidable by now – you might like to pay a visit to Greece. Careful: Make it your last stop, because you will probably want to stay there!
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Take a van & hit Minneapolis, why dontcha?
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NY’s gravity is that great? You should have scheduled Philly before leaving the East.
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Come to Houston! Specifically the north side 😉
Much love!
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Wot? No Texas cities? I’m sad.
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Canadian dates are tasty. You should come up here and try some. Oh, and while you’re here, might as well talk about your book!
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I agree with everybody who suggested anything between your starting points and ending points (ATL, Nashvegas, Chi-town, Pheonix -that’s how it’s said so that’s how it should be spelled get over it-, etc)
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You’re missing nerd central for the United States, the Tennessee Valley which includes Knoxville, TN (Oak Ridge) and Huntsville, AL (NASA). More nerds here then any of the places you’re going.
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No, no, no!
You’ve got to come to Japan.
Where else are you gonna get great “Dead fish on rice”?
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Atlanta!
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Please come to DC or Northern Virginia! By my count this is the 22nd vote for DC! Maybe on the way back from out West?
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Dude, what if, like, *all* the water fell at once?
‘Nuff said.
Colorado belongs on your tour 🙂
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Seriously? No Midwest stops? Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t drive the 10 hours to Chicago, but there are over 100,000,000 people living in “flyover country”. We buy books, too. Come on up to the great white north. In Summer all you have to fear is mosquitoes.
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You must come to Austin, TX. Nerd Capital of the World.
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Making some Midwest stops (Chicago, MinneapolisSt. Paul, Milwaukee, etc.) would be awesome.
Chicago, in particular, is quite nice in late summerearly fall!
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Texas is bigger than Europe, please come there instead. We got loads of cows and cowboys. You can even make fun of them.
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But… None of those places are Australia 😦
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Conservatives also read your strip and buy your books. Perhaps a layover in “flyover country” is in order.
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Nashvegas is between all those central cities, Atlanta, Huntsville, Oak Ridge, Chicago, Austin, Denver, Ottawa, Mexico City. You could just come here. Or go to Sewanee, Tennessee, it’s even better.
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ITT: nobody is happy with the locations you have planned.
But seriously, New Orleans is fun too.
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Atlanta. Atlanta. Atlanta. Atlanta.
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I know Richmond, VA is a bit of a stretch, but come on man, at least come to DC!
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Come to Somerville! It’s practically (and actually) right next door to Cambridge so it’s not out of the way! I’ll even pay your transportation costs (valid for up to one round trip on the T) and meal costs (dinner at Saloon?).
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Come on down to the Colonial WIlliamsburg area.
You know you want to.
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Us Rhode Islanders don’t like leaving our state (even if a couple years ago we had to escape the crowd 7 billion people that teleported here out of nowhere and jumped all over our yards). You ought to do a stop at Brown University on the way to New York.
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Please, come to Northern VA! OR FAIRFAX!
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I am in Florida but bow to the fact that no one with an i.q. above the average gerbil would intentionally travel here.
My vote, by proxy: Atlanta.
You fly 2 hours, I drive 8…seems fair.
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With the amount of traffic we have, I believe with absolutely zero confidence in whether this is actually supportable by physics that Atlanta can give you a bigger gravitational slingshot than NYC.
Also, I’d like to point out that the commenter who claimed “New Zealand is an actual place, unlike Atlanta” is clearly unaware that New Zealand was only invented so that Peter Jackson would have a place to film LotR movies, whereas Atlanta actually has an airport and a population.
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Russia, Please!
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I second (third, threehundred, …) EUROPE!!!!!!
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Raleigh++
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You call that a tour? It barely even a weeks vacation
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If you draw a straight line from Cambridge to New York City, then stick close to that route, you’ll be passing through northwest CT, and if you happen to make a stop around those parts I’ll buy you a beer. Just saying.
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Minneapolis Please
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Hmm, it seems you will have to visit every town and city in North America, and maybe some other places to (do those exist?) to satisfy your legions of fans… Good luck with that!
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Iowa City! We have (occasionally) tornadoes! Floods! Humidity! Hail! Blizzards! Derechos (w/ and w/o tornadoes and hail, above). Tempting, I know, but . . . . No?
OK, then can you at least wave as you fly over? Or ask your pilot to waggle his wings? Or at least send a balloon-shark to talk in your place. “Live at Prairie Lights” would be honored.
Thanks! And have fun on your talks!
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I can’t lie, it’s a depressing thing seeing you pass right by Portland on your way from Seattle to San Francisco. Especially since you could stop at the legendary Powells Bookstore.
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just saying, if you go anywhere in the Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill), it’s like taking out 3 nerd cities at once.
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Wow, you take that “flyover states” thing seriously. Skipping the 3rd, 4th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, and 15th largest cities, along with everyone 17th and below.
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