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.
About the AuthorAnnalee Newitz writes science fiction and nonfiction. They are the nationally bestselling author of the books
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age and
Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind, and the novels
The Terraformers (a Nebula Award finalist),
The Future of Another Timeline (winner of the Sidewise Award)
, and
Autonomous (winner of a Lambda Literary Award). As a science journalist, they are a writer for the
New York Times and elsewhere, and have a monthly column in
New Scientist. They have published in
The Washington Post, Slate,
Popular Science, Ars Technica,
The New Yorker, and
The 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 of
io9, and served as the editor-in-chief of
Gizmodo. They have two black cats named Infrared and Ultraviolet, and they love noodles.