Notices by Annalee Newitz 🍜 (annaleen@wandering.shop)

If you are at #worldcon today I have a reading at 4:30 in room 428! I'll read from Automatic Noodle and give you a sneak reading of my WIP, about a slime mold who is a graduate student! Plus I have some stickers!! #bookstodon

Happy book birthday to Automatic Noodle, which is all about three things I love: biang biang noodles, San Francisco, and robots. Catch me on book tour, and pick up one of these amazing t-shirts or other swag at our retro-90s HTML masterpiece https://www.automaticnoodle.website/ (yes, this is the exact URL the robots use in the book). Tour dates are linked from the FAQ at the bottom of the site. Because of course you need an FAQ. It's what humans like.

The Automatic Noodle book launch is today at 3pm in Noe Valley, San Francisco, the very neighborhood where most of the book takes place. Come spend a lazy afternoon with me and @alex talking about robots, noodles, and community. https://noevalleybooks.com/event/2025-08-03/automatic-noodle-event-annalee-newitz

Look at this glorious display at Noe Valley Books for Automatic Noodle!! I'm joining the hype by wearing my Automatic Noodle hoodie, and inviting all of you to come to the San Francisco book launch this Sunday at 3pm! RSVP here! (it's FREE) https://noevalleybooks.com/event/2025-08-03/automatic-noodle-event-annalee-newitz

Do you like noodles and robots? Of course you do! And because I love you, I wrote a very cozy novella about both called Automatic Noodle, which you can pre-order now! Find out what happens when a group of abandoned bots decide to open their very own noodle restaurant in San Francisco, while the city recovers from a devastating war. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250357465/automaticnoodle/

There is so much absolutely weird and sad shit in US politico-cultural war news today that I started to post like fifteen angry things and deleted all of them because all I want to say is hug your friends and remember that saying hello to a neighbor is worth more than 5000 hot takes online.

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 @alex. RSVP to reserve a spot! It's free! https://noevalleybooks.com/event/2025-08-03/automatic-noodle-event-annalee-newitz

This week, you can get the ebook of The Terraformers for just $2.99 wherever ebooks are sold -- including indie bookseller platform Bookshop.org, along with the usual places. If you can't wait for Automatic Noodle, this will tide you over!

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!

Some foods are an acquired taste. My cats are an acquired smell. They are total stinkers but their aroma is so pleasing to me! Am I a total weirdo?

It's a twofer! Barnes & Noble members can get 25% off if they pre-order Automatic Noodle AND We Will Rise Again (a glorious anthology about hope and resistance that I co-edited with @older and Karen Lord). Today through Friday!

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

Hey San Francisco Bay friends! What are you doing next month, on a lazy Sunday afternoon, 8/3? Join me for the launch of my new book, Automatic Noodle, hosted by Noe Valley Books! I'll be in conversation with AI researcher @alex. It's FREE! RSVP now! https://noevalleybooks.com/event/2025-08-03/automatic-noodle-event-annalee-newitz #sfba #sf #books

And if you're not in the SF-Bay, I will also be on tour, mostly in the western part of the continent. See all the tour dates here: https://www.automaticnoodle.website/blog/2025-book-tour-dates

The AUTOMATIC NOODLE TOUR is coming this August! Mark your calendars and get your tour merch at automaticnoodle.website

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.

Let's celebrate #indiebookstoreday! Two of my favorite local indies here in San Francisco are Noe Valley Books and Green Apple Books. You can get signed copies of my books from both places, right here:
https://noevalleybooks.com/annalee-newitz
https://greenapplebooks.com/list/signed-annalee-newitz

#books #bookstodon

And you can pre-order it here! It's out in early December! https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Will-Rise-Again/Annalee-Newitz/9781668095959

I am so proud and grateful to be part of the amazing group of folks who contributed to the anthology.

Astounding!! Finally you can see the cover of the anthology I've been working on for the past couple of years with co-editors @older and Karen Lord! "We Will Rise Again" is full of essays, interviews, and speculative stories about protest, social movements, and hopeful resistance -- all informed by the experiences of real-life movement leaders and community organizers.