iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 1h

Absolutely incredible. I love to see this digital art history being preserved.

Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 3h

After watching the first episode of this season of Slow Horses, I'm dreaming of a show that actually does follow the daring adventures of transit authority operatives, fixing potholes and thinking about many kinds of vehicles. Rescuing pedestrians! Making protected bike lines! Reducing traffic!

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Bookish Scifi & Fantasy @bookishsff.bsky.social · 10h

A Wall is Also a Road by @annaleen.bsky.social arrives soon in paperback, and flips the usual "discovers alien planet" tale by making the main character a biology graduate slime mold from an ancient civilisation who sets out to study a remote dangerous planet some might call Earth... #NewBooks 🪐📚💙

The cover of the book showing a mosaic-like image of a human face, swirling tentacles and astronomical bodies

A green banner reading BookishSFF's 2026 watchlist: scifi fantasy horror and spec fic publishing

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Chris Palmer @fugueish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"The star was descending into the ocean — an incredible illusion caused by the planet’s rotation — and pale clouds made of ice arched across the brutal blue sky. ... It was freakishly beautiful, like everything on this alien world." — @annaleen.bsky.social www.coyotemedia.org/excerpt-anna...

coyotemedia.org

Excerpt: ‘A Wall Is Also a Road’

The new novel from San Francisco sci-fi writer Annalee Newitz is a thought-provoking meditation on human nature, told from the perspective of an adventurous alien amoeba.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Chicago! This time next week, I will be there, on book tour for A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD! 10/7 I'll be at @barnesandnoble.com in conversation with @michitrota.bsky.social, who always asks insightful questions. Then I'll be in NYC, Boston, Burlington VT, and Ottawa! See you soon!

Annalee Newitz
A Wall Is Also a Road
Book Tour * Chicago
Barnes & Noble @ 651 West Diversey
October 7, 6PM
in conversation with Michi Trota

Book Tour

October 6 – San Francisco Book Launch
Green apple books, with M.M. Olivas

October 7&8 – Chicago
7th: Barnes & Noble @ West Diversey Parkway
with Michi Trota

October 9 – New York
New York City Comic-Con

October 14 – Boston
Brookline Booksmith
with Cecilia Tan

October 15 – Burlington, VT
Phoenix Books with Andrew Liptak

October 16-18 – Ottawa
Can*Con

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In case you were wondering what the literal opposite of the show HEATED RIVALRY might be, I have the answer. It's the British show RIVALS. I love them both, but never have two similarly-named shows been more diametrically opposed in vibes and content.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD comes out next week, 10/6! Join me on book tour, starting in San Francisco with a banger of an event at @greenapplebooks.bsky.social with @olivasthewriter.bsky.social. Next: Chicago, NYC, Boston, Burlington VT, and Ottawa! See you soon! #booksky #scifi #books

Annalee Newitz
A Wall Is Also a Road
San Francisco Book Launch
Green Apple Books on the Park
October 6, 7 PM
In conversation with M.M. Olivas

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BlackCatRanch @blackcatranch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hey #booksky - I just finished a lovely book by @annaleen.bsky.social -- and I think you should read this #book too! www.livegreenwearblack.com/2026/09/revi...

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every Riot grrrl band in the 90s

Still from the television show Xena: Warrior Princess showing Xena, Gabrielle and Joxer all with goofy expressions on their face

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here is a question for all you French-knowers. If I'm signing a book to a reader in French, is it OK to use the tu form in my personalization? Or should I stick with vous? The context would be that I don't really know the reader, but they have asked for me to sign and personalize my book.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Godzilla and Queen Ghidorah love A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD!! Now you can pre-order the book that everybody is rrrroaring about on Monster Island. (Thanks to @beeragon.bsky.social for the incredible documentary film.) us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

San Francisco! Tuesday 10/6! Start the season right at my book launch for A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD, @greenapplebooks.bsky.social on the park. I'll be talking to @olivasthewriter.bsky.social about tentacles, slime molds, and ancient Pompeii! Come say hi! It's free! greenapplebooks.com/event/2026-1...

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9th Ave: Annalee Newitz with M.M. Olivas

Welcome to our new website! We're excited to see you. *** RETURNING USERS WILL NEED TO RESET THEIR PASSWORD FOR THIS NEW SITE. CLICK HERE TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD.***

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I feel this in corners of my brain that rarely get acknowledged

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I was reading a 1940 book review of "Ideas Are Weapons" by Max Lerner, and came across the weirdest assertion. I must be missing some context from 1930s discourse, because this is NOT the critique I would expect of Lerner's proposal. Anyone know what the "it is really X" is referring to? Freud?

Lerner’s proposal for the control of press and radio by a board of fair-minded judges of propaganda rests on the psychologically unsound assumption that propaganda is a virus working from outside upon passive victims; whereas it is really the adroit satisfaction of existing desires which are already hitched up to superstitious ideas.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Salt Lake! This is tonight!!! Tickets are still available!!

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm in Salt Lake City for FanX and while out for an evening stroll I happened to walk into the Mormon Tabernacle Choir practicing (no really!). The best part: two beardy guys in teeny shorts and tank tops that said "Praise Lilith" were also watching. I would call it a very non-denominational moment.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Her name is literally Dr. Overton. I feel like she's definitely moving the window

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Amazon is selling the ebook of STORIES ARE WEAPONS for the sale price of $3 for the next 12 hours ... please enjoy the irony of buying a book about propaganda from a platform owned by a propagandist. www.amazon.com/Stories-Are-...

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Amazon.com

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I keep thinking about Maureen McHugh's collection AFTER THE APOCALYPSE where people are setting off dirty bombs and small nukes all over the place and it's just completely normalized. smallbeerpress.com/books/2011/1...

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After the Apocalypse | Small Beer Press

"Incisive, contemporary, and always surprising." —Publishers Weekly Best Books 2011: The Top 10

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hey-oh! If you are in SLC this Friday night and you like queers who write books, come out to this reading with me, @seananmcguire.bsky.social and @naomikritzer.bsky.social !! I am personally very excited to be adjacent to these two legends. Get your tickets now! legendariumbooks.com/events/63760...

Council of Queer Friends!
Author Panel
Sept. 25 @ 8 PM, Urban Arts Gallery, 116 S. Rio Grande Street, SLC
Seanan McGuire Annalee Newitz Naomi Kritzer
Get your tickets now!!

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I seriously never thought about sprayed edges on books as a thing and now it's like THE thing? Forgive me if I don't notice how beautiful your sprayed edges are. I'm into what's on the page, not the edges. I am not an EDGE FETISHIST ok

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Please give what you can to help this incredible author and wonderful human to find a cozy, livable apartment in his new home in Scotland! Bonus: cats will also be happy.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Truly this thread is the best absurdist thriller novel I have read this year

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's Monday. Please enjoy this short story about a graduate student whose clitoris disappears after the Second Comstock Laws go into effect.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hey Salt Lake City! I will be in you this weekend! Come out to see me at FanX, and get your (cheap) tickets now to an AMAZING event on Friday night with me, @seananmcguire.bsky.social and @naomikritzer.bsky.social. Tickets here: legendariumbooks.com/events/63760...

Thursday
4:00 pm panel: Sci-Fi: Not Just Dudes and Space Ships - Room 255A

Followed at 5pm by a signing session with The Printed Garden at Booth 1576

Friday
11:00 am panel: Character Voice: What it is, what it's not, and how to achieve it - Room 255A
Followed at 12 noon by a signing session with The Printed Garden at Booth 1576

8:00 PM Reading with Naomi Kritzer and Seanan McGuire, hosted by the Legendarium Bookstore at URBAN ARTS GALLERY

Saturday
At 5pm, a final signing session with The Printed Garden at Booth 1576

6:00 pm panel: Allow Me To Speculate: Crafting Speculative Fiction - Room 255A

A little poster from FanX with my face on it and pictures of two of my books: A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD and AUTOMATIC NOODLE. At the bottom it says "Annalee Newitz -- Salt Palace Convention Center"

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Marty Cahill @mcflycahill90.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Finished 2 books this weekend: The Slantwise Histories by @alixeharrow.bsky.social! Her collected work shines, but her new stories reach a whole new level of genius. A Wall Is Also A Road by @annaleen.bsky.social I devoured in 24 hours, and may be one of the best sci-fi books I've read this year!

orange cover with strange animal hybrids, The Slantwise Histories by Alix E. Harrow

A Wall Is Also A Road by Annalee Newitz, an early copy of the book with a cover covered in mosaics and a human face and tentacles

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Emmanuel Chastellière @gillossen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Une bonne nouvelle pour entamer le week-end ! #traduction @annaleen.bsky.social

Une belle nouvelle pour « Le restaurant des robots rêveurs » ! 🏆 Annalee Newitz vient de remporter le prix Octavia E. Butler dans le cadre des CALIBA Golden Poppy Book Awards 2025 pour sa novella de science-fiction « Le restaurant des robots rêveurs ».

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hey Salt Lake City!! What are you doing next Saturday night? Want to hang with your author pals and talk queer books? Join me, @seananmcguire.bsky.social, and @naomikritzer.bsky.social for a very special show hosted by Legendarium Books. Get your tickets now! legendariumbooks.com/events/63760...

legendariumbooks.com

Council of Queer Friends! | The Legendarium

Salt Lake's own science-fiction/fantasy bookstore and RPG cafe.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Finally watched The Devil Wears Prada 2 ... and correct me if I'm wrong, but the Cinderella fantasy here is that Mackenzie Scott will buy Conde Nast, and culture will be saved from AI by Anna Wintour? (I do love that The New Yorker does not exist in this secondary world.)

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Behold...it is my current rough draft

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One way to prevent climate disaster is to stop studying it and act really surprised when there are floods, fires, and crop failures. Then say: "How could anyone have known, or allocated resources for this? How sad that you are starving and exposed to extreme temperatures. We're praying for you."

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

pretty sure the best way to deal with our economic crisis and resource precarity is to pass legislation banning magic

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Always read @marynmck.bsky.social -- especially when it comes to how we grow food.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Remember that time Clippy went rogue

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Did you know I'll be on tour for my latest book, A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD, starting this October 6? Yes, I will! Catch me in San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, New York, Burlington VT, and Ottawa!

Book Tour

October 6 – San Francisco Book Launch
Green apple books, with M.M. Olivas

October 7 – Chicago
Barnes & Noble @ West Diversey Parkway
with Michi Trota

October 9 – New York
New York City Comic-Con

October 14 – Boston
Brookline Booksmith
with Cecilia Tan

October 15 – Burlington, VT
Phoenix Books
with Andrew Liptak

October 16-18 – Ottawa
Can*Con

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Worried about the threat of AI to humanity? There's a simple solution. Engineers, Q/A workers, and scientists creating AI can UNIONIZE to take charge of how their research is being used. @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social explains it all for you. open.substack.com/pub/howthing...

open.substack.com

Unionize AI

Is a strike less realistic than building a doomsday machine on purpose?

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Chris Palmer @fugueish.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“Get in on the ground floor!” “Of what?” “The Jackpot!” “Las Vegas, or William Gibson?” *finger guns* “Yes!!”

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

we watched I Love Boosters and 9 to 5 on two consecutive nights this weekend and it turns out that's a surprisingly perfect double feature, I can't believe there are two different movies that ask "what if you got really high and fed Das Kapital into the outfit computer from Clueless"

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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...

wired.com

One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

And now ... it's the official (!) trailer for A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD, which @chanda.blacksky.app called "a magnificent work of cosmic imagination." Please pre-order! Every little bit helps. The book drops on 10/6. youtu.be/BoTU03qQxKM?...

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Trailer: A Wall Is Also a Road, by Annalee Newitz

YouTube video by Annalee Newitz

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The algorithm (sort of) knows me, because Google search autocompleted Sagittarius as Sagittarius A* rather than suggesting horoscopes.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The weird thing about doing a deep clean is that the stuff I always throw out -- old financial docs, admin records, ancient mobile devices -- is also the stuff that historians and archaeologists love to find. Unfortunately, "it will be valuable in 1000 years" is not a good reason to save something.

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