San Francisco! Spend next Sunday afternoon (8/3) with noodles, robots, and friendly humans for the FIRST stop on the Automatic Noodle book tour, hosted by Noe Valley Books at 3pm. I'll be chatting with @npub1e2zt...n97d. RSVP to reserve a spot! It's free!

Noe Valley Books

'Automatic Noodle' Event With Annalee Newitz

I had to blow up San Francisco to give it a future I wanted to live in. For 48 Hills, I wrote about my new book Automatic Noodle, and how science fiction helps us resist the AI oligarchs who are stealing our city's future.

48 hills

Steal this future - 48 hills

We don't need to let the Big Tech oligarchs and creepy cyber-libertarians decide what city—and what kind of society—we want to live in.

If you're at San Diego Comic-con next week, come say hi!! I'll be there on a couple of panels, and will be signing books too!

Californians are debating secession again. It's not the first time, and my state's history of separatist movements really isn't pretty. I've written about it for Flaming Hydra!

Flaming Hydra

Quitting the Union / Shutting out the world

Will California secede? asks Annalee Newitz; tour the inner worlds of Trevor Alixopulos

Holy coconuts!! Automatic Noodle is the top pick from Library Reads in August!!! I can't tell you how much this means to me. I discovered scifi thanks to a friendly librarian when I was a kid. And librarians are still making books available to everyone, every day, no matter who they are. ❤️📚 Don't forget to come out and say hi when I'm on book tour in August! Get more info on dates and times, and RSVP for events here:

AUTOMATIC NOODLE

Automatic Noodle

Join me for the automatic noodle book tour this august. The tour dates (so far) are …

Hey Canadian pals! You can get 25% off all pre-orders of Automatic Noodle through Indigo Books this week, as part of their "most anticipated scifi" sale! I am so excited to be a "most anticipated" book in Canada!!!

Automatic Noodle Book By Annalee Newitz, ('tc') | Indigo

Buy the book Automatic Noodle by annalee newitz at Indigo

My latest column for @npub1rx28...kamt is about what robots might really be like in the future (squishy!), but also why bots became a metaphor for immigrants in my new book Automatic Noodle. You can read the article now, by making a free account!

New Scientist

Forget the Terminators, our robot future may be squishy and fun

It is uncanny how human fears about robots mirror those about immigrants. But maybe they aren't out to take our jobs or destroy us all, says A...