Automatic Noodle [Hardcover]

A cozy near-future novella about a crew of leftover robots opening their very own noodle shop, from acclaimed sci-fi author Annalee Newitz.

An instantUSA Todayand indie bestseller!

Indie Next pick | Library Reads pick | Best of the Year atElle,Gizmodo, Reactor,Library Journal, and more!

You dont have to eat food to know the way to a citys heart is through its stomach. So when a group of deactivated robots come back online in an abandoned ghost kitchen, they decide to make their own way doing what they know: making foodthe tastiest hand-pulled noodles aroundfor the humans of San Francisco, who are recovering from a devastating war.

But when their robot-run business starts causing a stir, a targeted wave of one-star reviews threatens to boil over into a crisis. To keep their doors open, theyll have to call on their customers, their community, and each otherand find a way to survive and thrive in a world that wasnt built for them.

Annalee Newitz writes science fiction and nonfiction. They are theUSA Todaybestselling author of the booksFour Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban AgeandStories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind, and the novelsThe Terraformers(a Nebula Award finalist),The Future of Another Timeline(winner of the Sidewise Award),andAutonomous(winner of a Lambda Literary Award). As a science journalist, they are a writer for theNew York Timesand elsewhere, and have a monthly column inNew Scientist.They have published inThe Washington Post, Slate,Popular Science,Ars Technica,TheNew Yorker, andThe Atlantic, among others. They are also the co-host of the three-time Hugo Award-winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. Previously, they were the founder ofio9, and served as the editor-in-chief ofGizmodo. They have two black cats named InfrlcC