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...

Getting ready for #caturday with Infrared and Ultraviolet (thanks to @npub12nla...6dft for the pictures). These cats are cuddle innovators. And they do it all to abolish capitalism! It's incredible.

Do you dream of lazy Sunday afternoons, full of tasty noodles and robots? Have I got an event for you! Join me and AI expert @Alex Hanna on 8/3 at 3pm to talk about my new book Automatic Noodle! Hosted by Noe Valley Books in San Francisco. Sign up now! It's free!

Noe Valley Books

'Automatic Noodle' Event With Annalee Newitz

We're living in an era when propaganda is being produced at an astronomical scale. The paperback of "Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind" just came out, and it's more vital than ever. I'll be joining @bschillace.brandyschillace.com for the Peculiar Book Club tomorrow 7/10 to talk about it! Join us at 4pm Pacific/7pm eastern for the livestream, and ask questions! Hope to see you there. https://www.youtube.com/live/zmqVYxUNrhQ

Not a time for fireworks, people. Read the room.

At last I can finally reveal that Automatic Noodle is an Indie Next pick for August! That means indie booksellers chose it as a recommended title, and that means everything to me. It's also a reminder to pre-order this li'l book, which helps me and the booksellers. Pre-order from your local indie bookstore, or via Bookshop.org. You can learn more about the book at a very silly website here: automaticnoodle.website

Will they destroy us? Will they be our willing slaves? We are asking all the wrong questions about AI and robots. In my latest newsletter, I talk about why I wrote an entire novella about how to ask the right questions about building a new life form.

Robots are obsessed with 1990s web aesthetics

I’m taking a break from my media studies series (you can read the first three installments here, here, and here) to talk about my forthcoming nov...

One day I'm going to be a normal person, but today I spent an hour writing a really hot sex scene between two single-celled organisms who admire each other's commitment to the scientific method. #amwritingscifi

I downloaded a scientific paper of great interest to me. It is of typical length, about 15 pages in the PDF. I opened it in Acrobat, and got this message highlighted at the top of the page next to an AI sparkle icon: "This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary." I cannot put into words how much this enrages me. First, this is not a long document. Have you met documents? Second, and more important, telling someone to not read a thing they want to read??! Fuck you, Adobe.