{"id":3413,"date":"2026-03-29T19:30:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T03:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3413"},"modified":"2026-03-29T19:30:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T03:30:37","slug":"review-automatic-noodle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3413","title":{"rendered":"Review: Automatic Noodle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Annalee Newitz&#8217;s latest is a simple book to sum up.  Some robots open a noodle shop.  There&#8217;s more to that to it, of course.  To the pot Newitz adds politics, decency, a love of San Francisco, and a delightful sentient contract that wants to live and not ask too many questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a lot of fun, compassionate, well written, and has interesting ideas.  It does seem a little shallow and maybe YA.  That&#8217;s not a criticism.  This is a good book to hand to younger readers or to take to the beach or on a flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annalee Newitz&#8217;s latest is a simple book to sum up. Some robots open a noodle shop. There&#8217;s more to that to it, of course. To the pot Newitz adds politics, decency, a love of San Francisco, and a delightful sentient contract that wants to live and not ask too many questions. It&#8217;s a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3414,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions\/3414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}