Come meet Richard Dawkins and get your books signed! You must purchase at least one copy of Richard Dawkins’ work and RSVP to get into the signing line. If you are unable to make the event you can purchase a signed copy through the Kepler’s Books website, and we will either hold your order for Plaza Pickup or ship it to you. A purchase of any Dawkins title will grant you access to the signing line, but we highly recommend his latest book, Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution.

Please note, Richard will not be personalizing books or taking photographs.

About Flights of Fancy

The wonder of flight. The science of evolution. From both, Richard Dawkins weaves a fascinating and beautifully illustrated account of how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies.

Do you sometimes dream you can fly like a bird? Gliding effortlessly above the treetops, soaring and swooping, playing and dodging through the third dimension. Computer games, virtual reality headsets, and some drugs can lift our imagination and fly us through fabled, magical spaces. But it’s not the real thing. No wonder some of the past’s greatest minds, including Leonardo da Vinci’s, have yearned for flying machines and struggled to design them.

Flights of Fancy is a book about flying—all the different ways of defying gravity that have been discovered by humans over the centuries and by other animals over the millions of years, from the mythical Icarus, to the sadly extinct but magnificent bird Argentavis magnificens, to the Wright Flyer and the 747. But it also means flights of digression into more general ideas and principles that take off from a discussion about actual flight.