We are just weeks away from Tuesday, April 7, release day! I’m super excited to announce my U.S. book tour for The Edge of Space-Time, which hopefully you’ve preordered by now (UK/Europe folks, you can get it there too, preorder for May 7 arrival).

But before I get into details, first things first: I made you a playlist for The Edge of Space-Time, which in a way is a book preview. Enjoy!!

The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie - YouTube

Out April 7, 2026 in North America from Pantheon Books and in UK/Europe on May 7 from Canongate Books.

Second: I’m excited to announce my April, May, June and September The Edge of Space-Time US Book Tour extravaganza! I will be making 19 stops in 15 cities and have an extraordinary and diverse array of conversation partners, including poets, novelists, cultural critics, feminist theorists, scientists, journalists, and people who are a few of these things all at once. I hope to see you all there.

At all stops, I will be signing and personalizing books and most events have a free ticket option or in a few cases, a small contribution to support the event organizers. There will also be two events available virtually! Where details exist already on the organizer’s website, I am including a link. For several of these, an RSVP is required or encouraged — this helps organizers plan. Also remember: PLEASE PREORDER THE BOOK FROM THESE STORES! If you’re not near an event location, you can still get a signed copy by preordering from Loyalty Books.

April 4, 12 pm — Exeter, NH, Exeter Litfest
April 6, 7 pm — Washington, D.C., Lost City Books and Loyalty Books (with Camonghne Felix, author of new release Let the Poets Govern)
April 7, 7:30 pm — Decatur, GA and Virtually, Charis Books (with Deboleena Roy)
April 8, 7 pm — Philadelphia, PA, Parkway Central Library (with Airea Dee Matthews)
April 9, 7 pm — New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University (with Roxane Gay)
April 11, 1 pm — Concord, NH, Gibson’s Books (with Matthew Miller)
April 13, 7 pm — New York, NY, Barnes & Noble #1979 (with Miwa Messer, live recording of Poured Over)
April 14, 7 pm — Brooklyn, NY, Café Con Libros (with Soraya Nadia McDonald)
April 16, 7 pm — Los Angeles, CA, Reparations Club (with Traci Thomas)
April 18, 4:30 pm — Los Angeles Festival of Books, CA (panel, advance tickets recommended when they become available)
April 20, 7 pm — Portland, Oregon, OMSI Science Pub
April 21, 7 pm — San Francisco, CA, Bookshop Portal West (with Charlie Jane Anders)
April 22, 7 pm — Chicago, IL, Women and Children First (with Moya Bailey)
April 24, 7 pm — St. Louis, MO, Clark Family Library (with Danielle Lee)
April 27, 6 pm — Cambridge, MA, Harvard Science Center and Harvard Book Store (with Evelynn Hammonds)
April 28, 7 pm — Brookline, MA, Brookline Booksmith (with David Kaiser)
May 6, 12 pm — Virtual Event, The Country Bookshop (with Nicole Chung)
June 14, TBD — Portsmouth, NH, Seacoast Litfest
June 18, 7 pm — Portland, ME, Print Bookshop (with Aleks Diamond-Stanic)
September 9, 7 pm — Tulsa, OK, Magic City Books

As you can see, I have a very full schedule, and it would mean the world to me if you made all the travel worth it by coming out and saying hi! Even if you can’t afford to buy a book, please come. Kids are welcome. I warmly encourage masking, and some venues have policies requiring masking (noted on the websites). Many of these bookstores are Black-owned and/or feminist venues, and this is your opportunity to support community spaces that are essential in the fight against fascism.

I also cannot emphasize enough how much preordering matters. Relatedly, nonfiction sales are down! This sucks! It is a terrible time to be releasing a nonfiction book. Please consider forwarding this email to friends and family and bringing them with you to the events. Tell them I wrote this book for everyone! Imagination always matters, but never more than when authoritarians are banging on our doors, hoping we stop dreaming.

Plus Essence Magazine says you should read it:

For the girls who are interested in everything from poetry, to cosmic particles to pop culture, cosmologist and physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Ph.D.’s collection is for you. Prescod-Weinstein uses an anti-colonial, Black feminist approach to share what the cosmos can teach us about life here on earth. 

LitHub agrees:

A cosmologist and particle physicist who also happens to be a great writer with wonderful cross-cultural fluencies, Prescod-Weinstein seems possessed of an off-kilter and roving curiosity ideally suited to answering all the bigger questions about where we are, why we’re here, and where, exactly, are we going.

And science journalist Nick Hilden thinks so too:

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein’s The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie is one of those wonderful reads that defies easy categorization. The author—a practicing cosmologist, physicist, and artistically-minded person—carries us on a journey through some of the key mysteries of the universe via a vast expanse of poetic and pop culture references. In the process she not only takes some of the unfathomability out of hard concepts, but brings in voices that have typically been marginalized in STEM conversations. Prescod-Weinstein’s previous book The Disordered Cosmos was widely hailed, winning the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for science, and I’m thoroughly enjoying her follow-up.

Thanks for reading my newsletter and remember you can keep up with book news on Instagram and occasionally, Threads. I’m also still writing my monthly column at New Scientist and have a few other works in the pipeline.