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.

This story was not for me.
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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