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. Where’s the Texas love? There’s a ton of us who read XKCD in Dallas-Ft Worth. Swing by, sometime.

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  4. It may not be possible, as they have many authors come give talks, but Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park, CA would be a great added venue while you’re in the bay area. I have lived in the area for a while now, and have enjoyed the fact some of the world’s great authors have come through this historic book store. What if you were one of those authors? James Franco goes there a lot for his books, just saying.

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  6. You’re hitting New York but not Philadelphia? Come on, we’re right next door! Sorta. Like, two hours if you know what you’re doing.

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  7. You’re bypassing Portland? Do you know how many fans you have here? Why, just at Tektronix, Nike, and Intel alone there must 75,000 fans.

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  9. Come on, man, you’re not even coming back to old Chesterfield? We need SOME entertainment in the 804.

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  10. (ok, here’s for everyone else, you don’t have to post now)
    Hey, you’re skipping (my-hometown)? C’mon, there are a LOT of us who read your what-if / xkcd comic! You should really stop in (my-hometown), it’s really close to (random-stop that isn’t really as close as you need). If you do, I can guarantee at least 1 (large values of one!) sale!!

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  12. Texas? Please don’t just fly over us twice! Come to JSC, or at least Houston. Yes?

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  13. I’m with Josh up there. There are many xkcd readers in the DFW area. Your slingshot needs to have better aim, imo. D:

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  14. Is it just me who notices that only cities with potential of Godzilla attacks are listed on this tour?

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  16. What?! Why are you not coming to [CITY]? Many of your fans are from [CITY]. Plus, [CITY] is right near [NEARBY AND LIKELY MORE ADVANTAGEOUS FROM A MARKETING PERSPECTIVE CITY]. Clearly, you haven’t thought about [CONDESCENDING CONCLUSION].

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  17. Heh, you guys got excuses for wanting him to swing into your states. Me? I think I’m the only XKCD fan in 147.24 miles of where I live. It’s kinda funny really. No one else out here really likes this type of humor.

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  18. You guys all got lucky, I’m dutch and if I want to go I have to cross an ocean. Still, I’m not asking him to Amsterdam or something. And we still got the online meeting.

    P.S. English is NOT my first language, so please don’t judge me on my English.

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  19. Come to Titusville, FL. We have a population of 43,000! At least 15 of us are xkcd fans. We have a Target now AND a Walmart.

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  21. Cleveland.

    You should just stop in Cleveland whenever you have the chance because it is awesome.

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  24. Wait, you’re not coming to Paris (France) ? Here there is at least 1 excited reader waiting for your arrival (which may appear as not so much) and 1 Eiffel tower not especially waiting for you but still, you can get to the third floor and enjoy a great view of Paris (which is technically more great views of Paris than any other of your currently planned stops have to offer).
    So, still not convinced?
    …
    Well, guys, you see, I did what I could. Bloody continental drift, a few hundred millions years from now, one still could have walked towards here from there…

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  25. What? No Powell’s? I think you should stop at Powell’s regardless of any other commitments.

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  26. Good luck with the book tour! (See what I did there? I didn’t beg him to come to my town. It is possible, folks.)

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  27. Randall: What if … I went to Portland? *researches for six days, scouring long-faded IBM user manuals, retracted JAMA articles, and alternate models of chemical bonding theory* Conclusion: Everyone would die.

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  29. You know, mentioning the fact that you’re on the ballot this year to win a Hugo award at the Loncon 3, this year’s Science-Fiction Worldcon would be advantageous to your sales, just saying.

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  30. Sadly Colombo is not on the tour. A larger mass may be needed for the slingshot. And I may be the only fan. Oh no wait, there is my wife as well.

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  33. Are you coming to Quinn SD? It is one of the fastest growing by percentage cities in the country. From 44 to 54 in ten years. Sorry, I probably won’t be there.

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  34. Come to Australia!
    We have lots of dangerous Animals, not like raptor dangerous… but close.
    And all our maps are upside down.
    We might also have a few XKCD fans. But they’re probably dangerous too.

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  36. Damn, no stops in Canada, plus the closest stop to my location is over 2 hours drive, in Seattle, on the on a school night, and I’m a teacher… Whine whine whine…

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  37. Just to show the extent of xkcd-love – please come to Tbilisi… we have… um… something… drinkable fresh water? No wars for a few years? Mountains?

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  39. These just went up today and already SF and Berkeley are both sold out. Can you do SF like 3 days in a row? Move to a bigger venue?

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  43. I don’t mean to pester, but I would love if could make a stop at Phoenix, AZ on your book tour. It’s on the way to California (or back for that matter). I’m a huge fan and would be highly enthused to attend your book tour if you were close enough to reach. Just a suggestion but I hope you give it some thought.

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  44. I don’t suppose you can come to Korea… But I’m definately going to buy the book 🙂 And can you put in some easy ‘what if’s in the book? I’m a middle schooler but nobody in my family or my friends find the comics understandable while I think it’s hillarious.

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  47. What? No Yorkshire? But Monty Python did a skit about Yorkshire, THAT’S how awesome it is! There are small hills! And men with ferrets down their trousers!

    Just for that I’m only going to order one copy of your book for everyone I know. HA! That’ll learn ya.

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  48. No love for Gliese 581g ? It’s over here in the constellation of Libra – only about 20LY from you. (You have FTL, right?)

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  49. Dear Randall … What if you were to visit every xkcd fan around the world on your book tour? How would your shortest possible route look like? And would you ever get back home?

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  50. Come to the UK. We’ve been Velociraptor free for 146 years (1868 was a bad year for us).

    Wishing you all the best with your tour wherever it takes you.

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