Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz by Newitz, Annalee

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

You don’t have to eat food to know the way to a city’s heart is through its stomach. So when a group of deactivated robots come back online in an abandoned ghost kitchen, they decide to make their own way doing what they know: making food—the tastiest hand-pulled noodles around—for the humans of San Francisco, who are recovering from a devastating war. But when their robot-run business starts causing a stir, a targeted wave of one-star reviews threatens to boil over into a crisis. To keep their