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From sci-fi visionary and acclaimed author Annalee Newitz comes Automatic Noodle, a cozy near-future novella about a crew of abandoned food service bots opening their very own restaurant.
While San Francisco rebuilds from the chaos of war, a group of food service bots in an abandoned ghost kitchen take over their own delivery app account. They rebrand as a neighborhood lunch spot and start producing some of the tastiest hand-pulled noodles in the city. But there's just one problem. Someone-or something-is review bombing the restaurant's feedback page with fake "bad service" reports. Can the bots find the culprit before their ratings plummet and destroy everything they created? Annalee Newitz (they/them) writes science fiction and nonfiction. They are the author of the book Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age, and the novels The Future of Another Timeline, and Autonomous, which won the Lambda Literary Award. As a science journalist, they are a writer for the New York Times and elsewhere, and have a monthly column in New Scientist. They have published in The Washington Post, Slate, Popular Science, Ars Technica, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic, among others. They are also the co-host of the Hugo Award-winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. Previously, they were the founder of io9, and served as the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.
Praise for The Terraformers:
"A vibrant, quirky vision of endless potential earned by heroism, love and wit."-The Washington Post
"An ingenious, galaxy-brain book."-Los Angeles Times
"Newitz always sees to the heart of complex systems and breaks them down with poetic ferocity."-N. K. Jemisin, author of the Broken Earth trilogy and The City We Became
"So engaging, you could almost miss the pyrotechnic world-building and bone-deep intelligence. Newitz continues doing some of the best work in the field."-James S. A. Corey, author of the Expanse series
"Newitz performs a staggering feat of revolutionary imagination in this hopeful space-opera. . . . With the ethos of Becky Chambers and the gonzo imagination of Samuel R. Delany, this feels like a new frontier in science fiction."-Publishers Weekly, STARRED review
"Nothing short of magical. After reading The Terraformers you will want to live in Annalee Newitz's future."-Javier Grillo-Marxuach, creator of The Middleman and producer on Lost and The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
"With an intriguing mixture of AI, intelligent animals, cyborgs, and humans, Newitz depicts a complex but hopeful future where environmental consciousness and people's rights take precedence."-Buzzfeed
"Magnificently fun.... The Terraformers explores the future effects of climate change, personhood, scientific advances and more with imagination, intelligence and optimism."-Ms. Magazine
"Far-reaching and ambitious but also surprisingly cozy and warm. . . . Newitz has a true gift for digging into weighty issues while maintaining light humor, a delightful queer sensibility, and pure moments of joy."-Booklist, STARRED review
"Warm, imaginative and often funny."-BookPage
"Undoubtedly destined to become a classic of the hopepunk movement . . . If you've been looking for an antidote to the apocalypse, this novel is for you."-San Francisco Chronicle
While San Francisco rebuilds from the chaos of war, a group of food service bots in an abandoned ghost kitchen take over their own delivery app account. They rebrand as a neighborhood lunch spot and start producing some of the tastiest hand-pulled noodles in the city. But there's just one problem. Someone-or something-is review bombing the restaurant's feedback page with fake "bad service" reports. Can the bots find the culprit before their ratings plummet and destroy everything they created? Annalee Newitz (they/them) writes science fiction and nonfiction. They are the author of the book Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age, and the novels The Future of Another Timeline, and Autonomous, which won the Lambda Literary Award. As a science journalist, they are a writer for the New York Times and elsewhere, and have a monthly column in New Scientist. They have published in The Washington Post, Slate, Popular Science, Ars Technica, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic, among others. They are also the co-host of the Hugo Award-winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. Previously, they were the founder of io9, and served as the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.
Praise for The Terraformers:
"A vibrant, quirky vision of endless potential earned by heroism, love and wit."-The Washington Post
"An ingenious, galaxy-brain book."-Los Angeles Times
"Newitz always sees to the heart of complex systems and breaks them down with poetic ferocity."-N. K. Jemisin, author of the Broken Earth trilogy and The City We Became
"So engaging, you could almost miss the pyrotechnic world-building and bone-deep intelligence. Newitz continues doing some of the best work in the field."-James S. A. Corey, author of the Expanse series
"Newitz performs a staggering feat of revolutionary imagination in this hopeful space-opera. . . . With the ethos of Becky Chambers and the gonzo imagination of Samuel R. Delany, this feels like a new frontier in science fiction."-Publishers Weekly, STARRED review
"Nothing short of magical. After reading The Terraformers you will want to live in Annalee Newitz's future."-Javier Grillo-Marxuach, creator of The Middleman and producer on Lost and The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
"With an intriguing mixture of AI, intelligent animals, cyborgs, and humans, Newitz depicts a complex but hopeful future where environmental consciousness and people's rights take precedence."-Buzzfeed
"Magnificently fun.... The Terraformers explores the future effects of climate change, personhood, scientific advances and more with imagination, intelligence and optimism."-Ms. Magazine
"Far-reaching and ambitious but also surprisingly cozy and warm. . . . Newitz has a true gift for digging into weighty issues while maintaining light humor, a delightful queer sensibility, and pure moments of joy."-Booklist, STARRED review
"Warm, imaginative and often funny."-BookPage
"Undoubtedly destined to become a classic of the hopepunk movement . . . If you've been looking for an antidote to the apocalypse, this novel is for you."-San Francisco Chronicle
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Em Grosland deftly juggles robotic voices and human emotions in this cozy postwar sci-fi. Four robots--Sweetie, Hands, Cayenne, and Staybehind--have survived a devastating war, only to be left alone in a flooded San Francisco burger joint. With no humans to interfere, the robots decide to turn the old restaurant into a sophisticated noodle bar, using their wartime skills to adapt to new challenges
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