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

We are not "living in the future." We are living in the present. The future is something different that hasn't happened yet. I know this sounds facile, but once you ponder it for a while you start to realize how pernicious and constraining it is to our imaginations to confuse the present with the future.

Hooray! "We Will Rise Again," the anthology about protest and resistance that I co-edited with @older and Karen Lord won the Locus Award last night!! Thank you to all the activists and authors who contributed to this incredible anthology, and to our editor at Saga, Sareena Kamath!

Also, check out all the other amazing folks who won!!

https://locusmag.com/2026/05/2026-locus-awards-winners/

Infrared and Ultraviolet are doing their synchronized napping routine. #caturday #catsofmastodon

Remember Don Martin, whose bizarro, sick cartoons were always one of the best things about MAD magazine? I did a deep dive on him and his work for the latest issue of @flaminghydra, on the first day of our soon-to-be-legendary MAD WEEK! https://flaminghydra.com/don-martin-mads-sickest-artist/

Our characters in Shadowdark are making their wills as we sit around the dinner fire. "If I die, you can loot my corpse," says the wizard. "Yeah," says my fighter. "Same for me. I have a lot of money."

What could go wrong? None of this talk creates a perverse incentive. #gamenight

At last I can announce that AUTOMATIC NOODLE is a Hugo Award finalist! It's also a finalist for the Locus and Nebula Awards! This has never happened to me before, and I can't tell you how much I appreciate all you fine nerds and friends for voting for this little book about robots who just want to make noodles. I spent many late nights on Mastodon while writing, and got live feedback on some of my ideas from many of you! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!

Yay! Automatic Noodle is a Nebula finalist for best novella!!! https://www.sfwa.org/2026/03/15/nebula-awards-finalist-announcement/

Give yourself a sweet-weird treat this weekend with a fantastic @humblebundle.com deal that includes most of the fiction that @charliejane.bsky.social and I have written. Sales benefit the Miss Major Alexander Lee Black Trans Cultural Center! https://www.humblebundle.com/books/charlie-jane-anders-annalee-newitz-tor-books

I just wrote a column for @newscientist called "stop anthropomorphizing ants" and I am pretty sure it's among the weirdest things I've ever written and probably they won't use that exact title lol

Last night, Automatic Noodle won the Octavia Butler Award!! I'm so honored and happy!!! 🤖❤️🎉 https://www.instagram.com/p/DUI5pCoknog/?img_index=5&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

@evan I voted as a permanent resident of Canada -- don't know if that makes me officially "Canadian"?

@seanbala @grumpasaurus hope you find those noodles!!!

Today only, Automatic Noodle e-books are on sale for $2.99 on all platforms! Grab one while they're still hot and chewy! https://bookshop.org/p/books/automatic-noodle-annalee-newitz/625018d0518991aa

If you want to know all the not-so-secret references to real-life San Francisco in Automatic Noodle, I've made a handy reference sheet for you! https://www.automaticnoodle.website/blog/all-the-not-so-secret-references-in-automatic-noodle

@evan I was thinking of when the Gregorian Chants were "released"

@evan which tbh would be more like the 1000s

@evan Needed "1300-present" option

In bookstores today! It's "We Will Rise Again," a book of hard-won hope in this dark season. I co-edited it with the wondrous @older and Karen Lord -- it's an anthology of speculative stories and essays about protest and resistance! Grab one now!
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Will-Rise-Again/Malka-Older/9781668095959

I've been hearing from a lot of booksellers and readers that Automatic Noodle is sold out in stores. We have a 2nd printing in the works! In the meantime, please backorder the book from your local indie so the publisher knows you want it. That helps me and the bookstore! https://bookshop.org/p/books/automatic-noodle-annalee-newitz/625018d0518991aa

@Steveg58 So what I'm hearing you say is that flies need better boundaries and should barf in the proper recepticles