Annalee Newitz

Save the World Book Tour!

Come out to see me talk about my new book, Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction — tonight and Saturday in Portland, and next week in Brooklyn, Washington DC, and San Francisco! Here are all the details! Hope to see you there — please say hi! For my later tour…

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Cities Are the Future of Human Evolution

Humans began to live in urban settlements about 7 thousand years ago. As humans continued to evolve over the millennia, so too did our cities. Now, our cities are about to change again — and they’re going to look more like ancient Machu Picchu than the gleaming towers of glass and steel we have today.…

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Why Humans Will Survive the Next World-Ending Catastrophe

There’s growing evidence that Earth may be headed for a mass extinction, where over 75 percent of all species die out and the world is changed forever. There’s also evidence that humans would survive such an event — for better or for worse. Here’s why. Over the past half-billion years, life on Earth suffered through…

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Keep up with the latest science e-books and apps with “Download the Universe”

Science-themed e-books and mobile apps are beginning to account for a significant segment of the digital marketplace — and that segment is growing. But as the supply of ebooks/apps about science continues to swell, it is becoming increasingly difficult to not only keep tabs on new releases, but to determine which releases are worthy of…

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A tale of eco-terrorists, doomed romance, and very strange science

Apex Magazine has just published my short story about a young materials scientist who develops a very peculiar superpower: vaporizing cars. It’s called “Twilight of the Eco-Terrorist.” Here’s how the story begins: The first time I vaporized a car, it was because I was in love. I was seventeen, and Lawrence had eyes like chips…

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What can science fiction tell us about the future of social media?

Right now, you are reading a piece of social media. That means it’s designed to be passed around on social networks – though it appears on io9.com, can easily be transplanted to Facebook, Twitter, Stumble Upon, and dozens of others. Or it can be converted to email or a text message you can pass along…

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The future of sexual fetishism in the asteroid belt

A new issue of Rudy Rucker’s scifi magazine FLURB went live yesterday, and it’s full of great free stories from Bruce Sterling, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Carter Scholz, Madeline Ashby, and more. Plus, my story “The Gravity Fetishist” is there too! In “The Gravity Fetishist,” we catch a glimpse of the future sexual underground in a…

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Don’t Drink And Play With Oxygen Tanks On An Asteroid

Life as a miner in the asteroid belt is rough and ugly. But then you score enough nickel to get all your friends drunk at a bar on Ceres, and things start looking up. Until they go downhill fast. This week I passed a milestone: My first fiction publication. And I wanted to share it!…

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Meet the Bloggers at io9

I’m Annalee Newitz, editor of io9, and I’ll be your pilot on this ride across time and space and your imagination and all that crap. The first time I saw Star Wars I got so excited that I threw up. I learned about sex from reading John Varley novels about creatures with three sets of…

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Save the World Book Tour!

Cities Are the Future of Human Evolution

Why Humans Will Survive the Next World-Ending Catastrophe

Keep up with the latest science e-books and apps with “Download the Universe”

A tale of eco-terrorists, doomed romance, and very strange science

What can science fiction tell us about the future of social media?

The future of sexual fetishism in the asteroid belt

Don’t Drink And Play With Oxygen Tanks On An Asteroid

Meet the Bloggers at io9

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