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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Really? Not one single stop between the east coast and the west? That’s disappointing. I’d happily go if you were anywhere within 500 miles of me, but I guess I’ll have to hope for some day a second book tour that includes places that don’t have an ocean view.
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I agree with what Miy said. No stops in the Midwest?! No love for the Second City? 😦
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So….. when are you coming to Toronto?
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Be careful in San Francisco, if all the nerds in the state concentrate at your book signing, the underlying rock will buckle and California could slide into the sea. Just be sure to keep a surfboard with you.
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Houston, TX is the fourth largest city in the country. Just saying, it might be worth a stop!
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Swing by Des Moines please! I can vouch for four people who’d attend, I’m sure some others might trickle in as well…
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I would also like to complain about the lack of love for people that don’t live near an ocean. It’s bad enough that we live here without famous people just ignoring us…
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Nothing in the UK…I’m disappointed 😦
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As an Oklahoma City resident, I would even consider driving to Tulsa for this.
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How about Ann Arbor?
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Here’s a Richmond, VA shout-out! See what’s changed. We have restaurants and coffee shops and everything. Be a nerd magnet!
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No stops in the South East either :[
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What, no visit to Victoria, British Columbia?
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Come on over to the UK sometime!
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What If you come to Mexico City?
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Just tell people that if enough books are bought by people in their city, you’d be happy to go there and talk about the book.
(although, if copies of the book are bought, you wouldn’t need to go talk about it – but don’t mention that part)
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I don’t understand why having alcohol on sale prevents under-21s from attending. Adults aged 18-20 are generally law-abiding, and the venue presumably has no desire to break the law by selling alcohol to under 21s.
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There is sadness in my soul that you are not coming anywhere near the South.
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I’m disappointed that you’ve not included the moon on your list of stops. It’s rather lonely up here.
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Be nice, people, he’s just 1 person and he doesn’t need to be on the road for 6 months! Don’t come to Mesa, Randall. Shatner sold out, but I think I’m the only one here who’s heard of you. It’s a desert of both landscape & nerdpower (I love the former).
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I’ve made the law of inverse squares an integral component of my life. As such, in the case of your book, the further away your tour is from my community, the less attractive force there is between myself and your book.
As such, you may want to swing by Texas to get a book sale. Just sayin’.
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Wow, Seattle event already sold out.
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You can safely avoid visiting The Netherlands on the European leg of your tour. They will be coming to visit you shortly; just as soon as the sea level drops.
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Another Aww for no flyover state stops. Would love to see you in Madison, or Milwaukee. Even Chicago.
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Randall you need a bigger slingshot manoeuvre, you haven’t escaped the United States for abroadians. 😛
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I 2nd the motion for a Houston stop.
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Any chance NPR can get you on to discuss your book? Maybe a Frrrrrrrrreshhh Air interview with Terry Gross?
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I just wanted to say that if you could just pop by my kitchen with a few rashers of bacon and a signed book, that’d be great. No, not that side of the table, the side closer to me. Thanks,
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I second Des Moines. It would be a hoot!!!
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I’ve heard that germany is beautiful at this time of the year … you should consider a booktour through europe!
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What about something in the southeast. There are nerds and geeks down here as well.
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“Houston, we have a problem.”
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You got to stop in Houston!
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Why no stops on the moon? You know that you should be going to every city where there is at least a single person who reads your stuff. I’ve got a what if for you… What if you stopped at all the places people asked you to stop at? How long would it take? Would your work suffer, or could you work on the road?
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seriously? no love for the Twin Cities?
There’s a little joint here called Uncle Hugo’s Science Fiction Bookstore… pretty sure the owner would be happy to arrange a day of signing for you.
~shameless plug~
http://www.unclehugo.com/prod/index.shtml
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I’m chiming in for Des Moines as well. It’s a lovely city. You should stop in and see us.
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Visit Chicago!! It’s lovely in the Summer (but the winter keeps the population under control!)
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Come to Chicago!! There’s no better city during the Summer. (Winter, though, serves population control)
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I’m a dork for the double-comment (now triple). Sorry!
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Outstanding that you are getting out and about!
Should you decide to alter your plans and find your way into Vancouver BC I will see to it that our gracious city furnish you with a venue, an audience, and a whack of credit card #’s for your book. Be prepared for a bunch of adoring romantics that really dig science and math and sushi and stuff.
S. Munro
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Yes, add another vote for Des Moines! You’d get a million Iowa State University, University of Iowa, and DMACC students flooding your event!
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A sad day here on the South Side of the Second City. Perhaps if we packed more theoretical geeks and nerds into a bigger area there might be sufficient gravity to draw you in. We even have book stores! And the state above us has cheese and beer. I’ll bet you could even learn a thing or two about limnology. Seiche. Just saying.
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Seriously, Union Square in NYC? That is like half a mile away from my apartment, can’t you do one closer? There is a coffee shop at 6th st and 1st ave that would be perfect.
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No stops on Venus?
C’mon! Your book would sell well over here if you visited, and didn’t die of suffocation, or heat stroke, or immolation, or corrosion, or being crushed to death by the atmospheric pressure, or the bends if you leave the atmosphere. And if your book was made of material that didn’t combust at 900F.
Nobody ever gives us love on the flyby planets! Venutians are kinda like people, too! We only ever get visits from the USSR, and even they won’t return our calls, now.
Come to Perelandra, you might like it! (We’re still clothing optional)
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Union Square. That is going to be a tough mile to traverse holding a book in my hand. Can you move it closer, like 1st ave and 6th st?
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Free beer and accommodation if you come to Berlin (Germany) which is full of nerds and home of the CCC (just saying)
PS: the accommodation is not a shack…
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Huge fan, I’ve been reading you almost since the beginning. The What-If series has been my favorite, mostly because physics is my favorite science (my other favorite thing to follow is minute physics). If you ever come to Charlotte, I’d love to buy you a beer and pick your brain!
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What would happen if one of your books changed into an anti-matter book while you were signing it?
Feel free to set this in the city / book store of your choice.
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Woooo! A web hangout for all those places you can’t visit (because vitsiting every major (and minor) world city is impractical) thank you!
Wait that means what in GMT! *Giantsquid of anger!* (just kidding)
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