Loving the Machine book tour!

I'll be preaching the gospel of Japanese robots on the U.S. West and East coasts later this month!

The tour kicks off Sept. 20th in Seattle at the Science Fiction Museum & Hall of Fame. Yowza. Very psyched for that.

I'll also hit San Francisco, Berkeley, Stanford, Pittsburgh, Cambridge and New York. The tour schedule so far:

• Seattle, WA Wednesday, Sept. 20, 7:30 p.m. Science Fiction Museum & Hall of Fame
• San Francisco, CA Thursday, Sept. 21, 7:00 p.m. Bookshop West Portal 80 West Portal Avenue
• Berkeley, CA Friday, Sept. 22, 5:30 p.m. Dark Carnival 3086 Claremont Avenue
• Stanford, CA Saturday, Sept. 23, 1:00 p.m. Stanford Bookstore 519 Lausen Mall
• Pittsburgh, PA Monday, Sept. 25, 12:00 Carnegie Mellon Bookstore 5032 Forbes Ave.
• Monroeville PA Monday, Sept. 25, 7:00 p.m. Borders Books and Music 200 Mall Blvd.
• Cambridge, MA Tuesday, Sept. 26, 5:00 p.m. MIT Coop Bookstore 3 Cambridge Center
• New Haven, CT Thursday, Sept. 28, 6:00 p.m. Yale Bookstore 77 Broadway
• New York, NY Friday, Sept. 29, 7:30 p.m. Barnes & Noble 396 6th Avenue at 8th St.
• Washington, DC Monday Oct. 2, 12:00 p.m. Japan-America Society of Washington, DC

I'm thinking of offering lessons on Japanese robot protocol. When to bow, when to use keigo, that sort of thing. Anything to get on the good side of our new superhuman pals. ; p