Automatic Noodle

 By: Annalee Newita  

Location: FIC NEW

Genre:  Sci Fi

If you’re into speculative fiction with a strong emotional core and bonus points for mouthwatering food writing, Automatic Noodle is worth your time.

It was short, sweet, cozy, but powerful. The characters are full of hope and love despite living in a world hostile to their kind and having to endure segregation. 

Having such passionate descriptions of food as the conductive thread of the story was brilliant, and the tastes felt as vivid as the characters. 
It is beautiful writing- Margot

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 doors open, they’ll have to call on their customers, their community, and each other—and find a way to survive and thrive in a world that wasn’t built for them.