Annalee Newitz

1969–

American writer and editor, born in 1969 in Irvine, California, who uses they/them pronouns. After editing the syndicated technology column “Techsploitation” and working as a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, they founded the science-fiction blog io9 in 2008 and later edited Gizmodo, and now write on tech culture for Ars Technica and as a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. Their fiction includes the novels Autonomous, The Future of Another Timeline and The Terraformers, alongside nonfiction such as Scatter, Adapt, and Remember. Automatic Noodle (2025) is their most recent novella.

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