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2025 Awards

Automatic Noodle

Annalee Newitz

A cozy near-future sci-fi story of abandoned AIs who open their own restaurant. 


While San Francisco rebuilds following a war, a group of abandoned food service bots left in a ghost kitchen take over their delivery app account. They produce some of the best hand-pulled noodles in the city, under a rebranded "neighborhood lunch spot". Out of nowhere, someone starts review bombing their feedback page, and the bots must get to the bottom of it before their reputation plummets. 

Sci-Fi, Cozy, Dystopian

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