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Also by Annalee Newitz:

A Wall Is Also a Road, October 2026
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
We Will Rise Again, December 2025
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Automatic Noodle, August 2025
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The Terraformers, September 2023
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The Terraformers, February 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
The Future of Another Timeline, October 2019
Hardcover

AUTOMATIC NOODLE
By: Annalee Newitz

Tor
August 2025
On Sale: August 5, 2025
176 pages
ISBN: 1250357462
EAN: 9781250357465
Kindle: B0DDJCWQH8
Hardcover / e-Book
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Science Fiction | Humor | Fiction Adventure

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

You don’t have to eat food to know the way to a city’s 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 food—the tastiest hand-pulled noodles around—for 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, they’ll have to call on their customers, their community, and each other—and find a way to survive and thrive in a world that wasn’t built for them.