TITLE Automatic Noodle 
AUTHOR Annalee Newitz
GENRE Science fiction
Publisher Pan Macmillan/ Tor Publishing Group
Cost Rs 399

Annalee Newitz’s new title. Pics courtesy/Wikimedia Commons; Gage Skidmore

In American science journalist Annalee Newitz’s new title Automatic Noodle (Tor Publishing Group), the year is 2064, a post-War era. California has achieved the status of an independent state. Most of the pre-war population is lost. Staybehind, Cayenne, Sweetie, and Hands are a group of Human Equivalent Embodied Intelligence (HEEI) bots, who have acquired civil rights after the war. They find themselves at an abandoned restaurant, clearing the water brought in by a storm. The owner has escaped, leaving a bad business behind. In order to survive, the bots decide to reopen the kitchen as a noodle shop and turn the business into a successful one, but some problems stand in their way.