Automatic Noodle

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160 pages

English language

Published Aug. 5, 2025 by Tor Publishing Group.

ISBN:
978-1-250-35746-5
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From sci-fi visionary and acclaimed author Annalee Newitz comes Automatic Noodle, a cozy near-future novella about a crew of abandoned food service bots opening their very own restaurant. While San Francisco rebuilds from the chaos of war, a group of food service bots in an abandoned ghost kitchen take over their own delivery app account. They rebrand as a neighborhood lunch spot and start producing some of the tastiest hand-pulled noodles in the city. But there’s just one problem. Someone—or something—is review bombing the restaurant’s feedback page with fake “bad service” reports. Can the bots find the culprit before their ratings plummet and destroy everything they created?

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reviewed Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

Cozy, feel-good sci-fi

A story about a bunch of robots who start their own hand-pulled noodle business. It's a short read that leaves you feeling happy and hungry for biang biang noodles. But it ends rather abruptly, with at least one major unresolved conflict.

Subjects

  • Science Fiction & Fantasy
  • Action & Adventure

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