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

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

Update for all the folks asking: Apparently we will be allowed to "encourage" masking, and a different organizer of the event will bring free masks. I will ask people (nicely) to wear them, and will likely just have to mask on stage. I will also bring my CO2 monitor -- if the air circulation is really good I may take my mask off on stage, as that makes it much easier to project. I'm still really upset, but I'm trying to be nice about it. I'll just never go to this venue again.

I'm slated to speak at an event where the host refuses to ask the audience to mask because "they are pouring wine." COVID levels are currently high in California (where the event takes place) and nobody will have gotten their vaccines for the new strains yet. My partner is immuno-compromised, so this is a life-and-death issue in my family. I am traveling to the event on my own dime, to perform for free. All I ask is that the audience mask FOR AT MOST 90 MINUTES. Why is this so hard?

I keep wondering if all the ants who are hanging around in the nest seemingly doing nothing are in fact totally vibing to some pheromone-based anternet memes. https://www.nature.com/articles/srep20846

@jeridansky @aral Mike is the greatest

This is coconuts. I was using PirateShip, an app for buying and managing mailing labels. When I entered the window for printing a label, a dialog box popped up asking me if I wanted the document summarized by AI. The document, to be clear, was a mailing label that I was in the process of printing.

I don't think this is PirateShip's fault. They are using Adobe Acrobat to format their labels, and it would appear that Adobe got their AI bloatware to blorp up a dialog box in PirateShip's app.