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XKCD Author's Unpublished Book Has Already Become a Best-Seller

Posted by samzenpus on from the big-before-it-was-big dept.

destinyland writes "Wednesday the geeky cartoonist behind XKCD announced that he'd publish a new book answering hypothetical science questions in September. And within 24 hours, his as-yet-unpublished work had become Amazon's #2 best-selling book. 'Ironically, this book is titled What If?,' jokes one blogger, noting it resembles an XKCD comic where 'In our yet-to-happen future, this book decides to travel backwards through time, stopping off in March of 2014 to inform Amazon's best-seller list that yes, in our coming timeline this book will be widely read...' Randall Munroe's new book will be collecting his favorite 'What If...' questions, but will also contain his never-before published answers to some questions that he'd found 'particularly neat.'"

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  1. Don't get it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's about as funny as User Friendly. Awful, awful stuff. Navel gazing of the worst kind. I guess it's great if you have Asperger's.

  2. His name is Wednesday? by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 1, Troll

    Wednesday the geeky cartoonist behind XKCD

    I thought his name was Randall.

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