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Review: Automatic Noodle

Annalee Newitz’s delightful novella, Automatic Noodle, is a masterfully crafted piece of near-future speculative fiction that manages to be both deeply comforting and razor-sharp. It seamlessly balances the warmth of “cozy sci-fi” with a thoughtful, hard-hitting exploration of freedom, dignity, and systemic prejudice. The story takes place in a San Francisco working to rebuild itself […]