160 pages
English, Español language
Published Aug. 5, 2025 by Tor Publishing Group.
La visionaria y aclamada y aclamada autora de ciencia ficción Annalee Newitz presenta Automatic Noodle, una novela corta ambientada en un futuro cercano sobre un grupo de robots de servicio de comida abandonados que abren su propio restaurante.
Mientras San Francisco se reconstruye tras el caos de la guerra, un grupo de robots de servicio de comida en una cocina fantasma abandonada se hace con el control de su propia cuenta de app de reparto. Se reinventan como un restaurante de barrio y empiezan a producir algunos de los fideos hechos a mano más sabrosos de la ciudad. Pero hay un problema: alguien, o algo, está bombardeando la página de comentarios del restaurante con falsos informes de "mal servicio". ¿Podrán los robots encontrar al culpable antes de que sus valoraciones se desplomen y destruyan todo lo que han creado?
If you have time to read this book, please do it. The characters are well developed, the world building is amazing, and the coziness is top notch. This book is fun, quick, and also quite impactful (or at least it was for me).
The shtick: intelligent robots traumatized by war, capitalism, and oppression struggle together to establish a noodle shop in war-torn, separatist San Francisco.
Other than thinking robots and tube delivery technology, the worldbuilding is a fever dream of the current moment despite being set in 2064: it's got crypto, LLMs, delivery apps, ghost kitchens, slang like "rizz". But it's unfair to take this aspect too seriously; it's not a hard sf novel trying to speculate about the future. At its heart, it's a comfy emotional novel about forming community around food in a ruined future.
It's fluffy, it's fun, it was something I needed right now.
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