Randall "XKCD" Munroe is doing a What If? book!

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Welp, that’s one stocking stuffer taken care of this year.

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Has he addressed “What if mankind went to war against goats?”

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I’m just bummed he’s never put up an answer to the “what if” I submitted.

I guess it means I’m not good enough at generating implausible scenarios.

Fantastic news!

How to say this without sounding childish and demanding…?
Where’s my UK pre-order link?!
Nope didn’t manage it.

I kind of wondered that as well, since Randall has the UK pre-order link on his blog. Anyway, since Cory can’t be bothered:

UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/What-If-Randall-Munroe/dp/1848549571/
FR: http://www.amazon.fr/What-If-Scientific-Hypothetical-Questions/dp/1848549571/
DE: http://www.randomhouse.de/Paperback/What-if-Was-waere-wenn/Randall-Munroe/e447755.rhd

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Murray you are my hero… I did search on Amazon but failed to find the page

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Not having done any further research the cover appears to me to be depicting a Tyrannosaurus rex about to learn a new definition of pain and suffering as it’s lowered into the Sarlacc pit in the single greatest Spielberg-Lucas collaboration since Indiana Jones.

Even if I’m completely wrong about that I still want to read it.

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You never know – maybe it’s in the book!

Anybody else reflexively tried to check the xkcd mouseover text?

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That promises to be the best thing of its kind since Jearl Walker’s Flying Circus of Physics.

Yup!

Hrmm, sadly, no Canadian pre-order link. Well, the Kindle edition, but no hardcover :frowning:

Or too good.

[quote=“doctorow, post:1, topic:25467”]
What If? is one of my Internet must-reads, and I look forward to each new installment, and always read it with delight.[/quote]

Ditto :smiley:

Buys book
Holds fingertip over first image

Stupid analog technology…doesn’t even support the alt attribute.

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<pedantry class=“sorry”>It’s actually the title attribute. Only IE<7 (erroneously) shows the alt attribute as a tooltip.</pedantry>

Dammit. I even bothered to look it up first and thought I got it right…I knew it was one or the other buy couldn’t verify it with my mobile browser.

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