When first contact with extraterrestrials happens, it will be more mundane than you think. My latest newsletter, about why we think that "first contact" must lead to war or civilizational freakout. https://buttondown.com/thehypothesis/archive/when-first-contact-happens-it-will-be-mundane/
Boston and Burlington, VT! See you next week!! I'm at Brookline Booksmith in Boston on Weds 10/14 and at Phoenix Books in Burlington Thurs 10/15! Let's talk about slime molds and ancient Rome!
The audiobook of A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD is generating a lot of excitement, and it's all due to narrator Jess Nahikian, who managed to create the perfect queer David Attenborough vibe. You can get the audiobook wherever they are sold! Here's an audio excerpt if you want to check it out!
Apologies -- this audiogram does not have a transcript, but you can read the chapter it comes from in its entirety here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250447081/awallisalsoaroad/
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This what the people pushing AI art do not understand. IT CAME FROM MY BRAIN! That is literally the entire point of art.
RE: https://wandering.shop/@ceciliatan/117401594675567710
Boston! Come see us next week!
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Chicago! This is TONIGHT, 10/7! Come to show off your tentacles and/or your knowledge of ancient Rome to me and Michi Trota! See you there!
Here are the rest of my tour dates! https://wandering.shop/@annaleen/117005530387876238
Greetings, humans! Reach your tentacles into A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD because it is on shelves today 10/6! I'll be at Green Apple Books on the Park tonight at 7pm with M.M. Olivas to celebrate! Tomorrow: Chicago!
So thrilled that WE WILL RISE AGAIN has won an Ignyte Award!!! This is incredible!! Many thanks to all our amazing contributors and the activists who offered their time for interviews (all listed in the alt-text); to our wonderful editor Sareena Kamath; thank you to everyone who voted for us; and so much love to my co-editors, who make working together a joy, @drkarenlord and @annaleen
A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD comes out Tuesday 10/6, and that's when the Slime Mold Autumn book tour starts! @chanda praised the book as a "magnificent work of cosmic imagination" and CB Lee called it "beautiful." Yumei Kitasei said, "Single-celled eukaryotes have never been so sexy."
See me in San Francisco (10/6), Chicago (10/7), New York Comic-con (10/9), Boston (10/14), Burlington VT (10/15), and in Ottawa at Can*Con (10/17-18). #books #bookstodon #scifi #history #science
Also I love the set that my pal (and video director) Fivestar created with me, complete with very professorial desk, weird old telephone and jug, and various other random items.
A sentient slime mold from beyond the galaxy meets the world of ancient Pompeii. That's the premise of my new novel A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD. If you want to know more about the bonkers research that went into my worldbuilding in this book, here's my tale ... with helpful captions and illustrations! The book comes out on Tuesday 10/6.
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 Barnes & Noble in conversation with Michi Trota, who always asks insightful questions. Then I'll be in NYC, Boston, Burlington VT, and Ottawa! See you soon!
RSVP for the San Francisco event here! (Not necessary but helpful.) https://greenapplebooks.com/event/2026-10-06/9th-ave-annalee-newitz-mm-olivas
A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD comes out next week, 10/6! What you'll get: Slime molds who are grad students! Galactic-scale civilizations! Meticulously researched representations of ancient Pompeii!
Join me on book tour, starting in San Francisco with a banger of an event at Green Apple Books on the Park with M.M. Olivas. Next: Chicago, NYC, Boston, Burlington VT, and Ottawa! See you soon! #bookstodon #scifi #books
One of those San Francisco days which requires you to change your shirt three times before 1pm because the microclimates are in flux
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Cannot wait to talk to @ceciliatan about tentacle sex! And other things.
Yes, that was me listening to literally every sound file of elephant ethograms on this site. Basically, elephants appear to communicate in part by "rumbling" to each other simultaneously. I love the idea of a language that requires multiple simultaneous speakers in order to generate meaning. https://www.elephantvoices.org/explore-the-elephant-ethogram
San Francisco! Tuesday 10/6! Start the season right at my book launch for A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD, at Green Apple Books on the park. I'll be talking to M.M. Olivas about tentacles, slime molds, ancient Pompeii, & more! Come say hi. It's free!
https://greenapplebooks.com/event/2026-10-06/9th-ave-annalee-newitz-mm-olivas
For me, Godzilla is one of the most relatable characters in film