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Annalee Newitz
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bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd
latest books: Automatic Noodle, Stories Are Weapons
bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc.
pod: www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com
pronouns: they/them
all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com .. more

Annalee Newitz is an American journalist, editor, and author of both fiction and nonfiction. From 1999 to 2008, Newitz wrote a syndicated weekly column called Techsploitation, and from 2000 to 2004 was the culture editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. In 2004, Newitz became a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. With Charlie Jane Anders, they also co-founded Other magazine, a periodical that ran from 2002 to 2007. From 2008 to 2015, Newitz was editor-in-chief of Gawker-owned media venture io9, and subsequently its direct descendant Gizmodo, Gawker's design and technology blog. They have written for the periodicals Popular Science, Film Quarterly and Wired. As of 2019, Newitz is a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times. .. more

Communication & Media Studies 20%
Political science 19%
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Holy crap -- Automatic Noodle is an instant USA Today and Indie bestseller! Thank you so much, humans and robots, for reading this li'l book and making it soar. Now go eat something! Or get your noodle swag at automaticnoodle.website

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Yar

"Wow." [Genuinely awed voice] "It's actually really hard to be that bad at soldiering wires."

Why I was just earworming "All the Things She Said"

So glad to hear that you are recovering!! 💜
truly a joy to discuss We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope with @annaleen.bsky.social @older.bsky.social @drkarenlord.bsky.social for my first-ever interview on @kfai.org's Write On! Radio kfai.org/we-will-rise...
We Will Rise Again w/ Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older - Write On! Radio | News | KFAI | Minneapolis & Saint Paul
We Will Rise Again is an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer inspiration for the social justice movements of tomorrow.
kfai.org

Which of these two cats is the Shane? Which of these two pizzas is the Ilya? Is Shane the raw or the cooked? Is Ilya the public or the private sphere?

Driving everyone in my life bonkers by insisting that all binaries and twosomes be described in terms of which one is the Shane and which one is the Ilya

That should be the book's tagline!

It truly was my pleasure 🍜

Today you can pre-order my next novel, "A Wall Is Also a Road" for 25% off if you are a Barnes & Noble member (membership is free). If you liked the cute/weird robots in "Automatic Noodle," I'm pretty sure you'll like these cute/weird slime mold grad students. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-wall-is-...
A Wall Is Also a Road
From bestselling author Annalee Newitz, A Wall Is Also a Road is a thought-provoking science fiction adventure about the meaning of life and love, seen through the many eyes of an alien grad student s...
www.barnesandnoble.com

Thanks for including me! 💓

Glad you liked it!!!

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Hope you are feeling better soon!! 🫂

Next year at Can*Con?

There is no UK edition, though it is available as an import. E-book will be faster and cheaper. 😊

Yay!!!

Sorry about that 😭

Awww! I think you and I might be the only people who have the hoodie version of the merch.

Today only, Automatic Noodle e-books are on sale for $2.99 on all platforms! Grab one while they're still hot and chewy! bookshop.org/p/books/auto...

Hooray!!! So tasty!

Ha!! Yes. It's a reference to our greatest epic, "Shane and Ilya on the Ice."

I am aware!

When I have a second, I'm going to read the whole series

Yeah, Kip and Scott are hugging right now, in their awesome apartment.
Sauron is appearing on the scene as concerns rise about crime among the most wealthy.
Sauron, the high-end home security startup for "super premium" customers, plucks a new CEO out of Sonos | TechCrunch
Sauron is appearing on the scene as concerns rise about crime among the most wealthy.
techcrunch.com

Every time I feel bleak, I just tell myself that at least Ilya and Shane are at the cottage. #thanksCanada

And don't even get me started on the demands it places on trans women

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sneaking in with one last pub before the new year: a review of the anthology We Will Rise Again, in which I talk about the ups and downs of organizing, some incredible stories, and why we need real visionaries. shoutout to editors @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @older.bsky.social