Robots! Witches! Annalee and Charlie Jane talk about their new books

The covers of Automatic Noodle and Lessons in Magic and Disaster, both out in August!

It's a double book birthday! Annalee has just released Automatic Noodle, a wonderfully cozy book about robots who've survived a devastating war and now just want to run a noodle restaurant. And in 12 days, Charlie Jane is releasing Lessons in Magic and Disaster, about a trans witch who teaches her heartbroken mother how to do magic. In this episode, we're both celebrating our new books and talking about how we poured all of our feelings about the past few years into escapist tales.

Notes, citations, etc.

Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders

Annalee is on book tour now — come see them!

Charlie Jane is on book tour starting 8/19 — come see her!

You can catch both of us at Writers With Drinks in Seattle on 8/14, along with Darcie Little Badger, Cecilia Tan, Becky Chambers and Andrea Hairston! Tickets required.

We love Biang-Biang noodles!

Annalee wrote about California secession for Flaming Hydra

Charlotte Charke was an infamous transmasc writer and actor in 18th century England

Charlie Jane became obsessed with the amazing women writers of the mid-18th century