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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Wow you are just bypassing Connecticut as if it doesn’t even exist. 😦
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Nowhere near your alma mater? Come on down to Virginia!!
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I must admit that KSP is not the best tool to plot your travel route. I still get confused when my GPS tells me to burn prograde for 30 seconds. And I haven’t yet figured out how to orient my car in the antinormal direction on a highway.
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Wait, what? Missing the greatest privately held bookstore in the land, and passing Portland, Oregon over as if we didn’t exist?
Bah!
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What about Pittsburgh? This is where the Nerds live. 😥
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No Chicago? 😦 You insensitive coastist!
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It is too bad that you’re spending so much time in the worst parts of California.
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Oh. Why does Harvard get all of the love? Drop by Yale!
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I also live in Chicago, like that other guy. But, 5 stops is a good tour enjoy!
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No Virginia love? But you’re from here!
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What if you made a poster of the tour, so I could put it up at work.
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This is the 3rd comment saying UK!
Don’t forget us. We can nerd as good you across the pond!
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What if the entire inland area of the country disappeared, leaving only the East and West coasts?
WE WOULD ALL DIE HORRIBLE DEATHS, that’s what. You KNOW that. So why did you plan your tour as if it had already happened?
😀
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Skipping all of the midwest? no chicago or St Paul/Minneapolis?
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Skipping the whole southeast? 😦 Can’t you manage to come within a couple of states of me? Overnight travel is not out of the question; going to the diagonally opposite corner of the country is, though.
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I can’t believe you won’t come do an event here on the International Space Station! So offended.
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You bunch of USAcentrics. What about the rest of the world? Why not New Zealand, New Guinea and New York. Besides, Book tours are cheap just go to your nearest post office and send a book to a nominated place for a small fee.
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No Detroit? No Chicago? No international? Much sadness.
We, (Detroit), have a world famous rare book store even.
http://www.rarebooklink.com/cgi-bin/kingbooks/index.html
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We of Denver wonder why you seem to have skipped our time zone altogether..
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While I will be seeing you in Boston, because I’m in Boston, I wonder if you’d get much love in Huntsville, AL? Highest concentration of Ph.D.s in the country (I think). NASA’s Marshall Spaceflight Center, and all.
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Olde Bostonian line: Q: And what route did you take to Seattle? A: through Waltham.
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Ah, figures you wouldn’t visit America’s dick. If I had the money and time, I’d take a vacation from Florida and come to one of the locations.
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Why did I have to be Brazillian? ;-;
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No love for Canada either. Cueball wept. He’s clearly Canadian.
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Dont feel bad guys! I live in one of the stops, and tickets are already sold out! Even the standby line is already sold out!
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I second the Huntsville Alabama nomination! Tons of nerdy engineers and true rocket scientists that would love to come out and support you!
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Count me disappointed as well that you’re skipping the entire interior of the country. Madison, WI probably wouldn’t make your list even if you were visiting, but no Chicago? No Twin Cities?
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So, I have to wait till the oceans are drained before the I can say that the book tour has been to the Netherlands.
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Do not use the gravitational slingshot around New York, you will travel back in time!
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In adding to the list of place you should totally visit, I would like to submit Laramie, Wyoming! (There are quite a few fans of your comic/book/self in general here!)
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Randall, can you please comment on the differences between US-UK commonwealth and German editions?
Are there any real differences?
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What if …
You decided to stop by the UK?
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Judging by the comments above people clearly want you to stop at all of the places (can’t really blame them). Sounds like a what if question for you. “How long would your book tour take if you stopped at every major city across the world?”
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I bet if you checked where most of your merchandise sales go, Raleigh/Durham would be high enough on the list to warrant a visit.
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Vegas Baby!!! It’s only 115 F today… but it’s a dry heat… You know, like a pizza oven. Also, for the guy that wants to “orient my car in the antinormal direction on a highway”, You got it right when the car is upside down and rotating counter clockwise on it’s roof (as viewed from above). Not sure this should be tried in a convertible… but I assure you it is an antinormal orientation.
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Nowhere outside of the US? No love for Canada.
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Vancouver? Canadians would like some love too! Bonus: not too far from Seattle (:
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What, no Portland OR ? Jus stop on the way from Seattle to San Francisco !
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Nowhere near SLC? Utah is nerd central for the west!
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So, are you implying that NYC is fat?
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Is the gravitational slingshot the reason for bypassing the Midwest? I understand it would be a shame to waste all that momentum, but I am disappointed still here in Chicago.
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If the slingshot goes awry, feel free to land in Canberra, Australia.Southern hemisphere options are always good for a Plan B.
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Why not a visit to the UK?
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Why no visit to the UK?
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Oh no both Bay Area dates are sold out already… please add more! 🙂
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Nashville Please.
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Yes – Nashville. The Huntsville people will travel here and we have good restaurants.
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Looking forward to the hangout!
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Ack, Seattle, so close yet so far. I could justify a selfish trip to Portland from Salem with my very pregnant wife and 2-year-old son, but not one all the way up that far into Washington. Sadness eternal!
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