Jun 01 2026

Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

Plucky robots pluck up their pluck and, having stymied the dastardly review bombers, stay right the pluck where they are.

Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

This story was not for me.

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Doreen liked Automatic Noodle more than I did; her review is here. This was the sixth of the Hugo finalists for Best Novella that I read, and the third that I have written about.

Doug Merrill

Writer, editor, translator, project manager, reformed bookseller. Currently based in Berlin, following stints in Moscow, Tbilisi, Munich, Washington, Warsaw, Budapest and Atlanta. Previously blogged at A Fistful of Euros, though that is now largely lost to link rot.

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