Annalee Newitz

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Annalee Newitz writes science fiction and nonfiction. They are the author of three novels: The Terraformers, The Future of Another Timeline and Autonomous, which won the Lambda Literary Award. As a science journalist, Newitz has authored Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age and Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in science and Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind. They are a regular contributor to The New York Times and write a monthly column in New Scientist. Newitz's work has also been published in The Washington Post, Slate, Popular Science, Ars Technica, The New Yorker and The Atlantic, among others. They are the co-host of the Hugo Award-winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. Previously, they founded the tech blog io9 and served as the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.