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From the Lambda award-winning author of Autonomous comes Annalee Newitz's Tor.com Original short story, #Selfcare In a near-future San Francisco where the gig economy has made work more precarious than ever, Edwina is an average twenty-something scra. The Future of Another Timeline. “A revolution is happening in speculative fiction, and Annalee Newitz is leading the vanguard."--Wil WheatonFrom Annalee Newitz, founding editor of io9, comes a story of time travel, murder, and the lengths we'll go to protect the ones we love.1992. Old Media. Annalee Newitz's Old Media: A Tor.com Original, tells the story of a freed slave and a robot professor, trying to figure out what it means to be in love while they watch old anime from the 21st century.At the Publisher's request, this title is being . Autonomous. Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin Hood, fabricating cheap scrips for poor people who can’t otherwise afford them. But her latest drug hack has left a trai. Old Media by Annalee Newitz. The Future of Another Timeline. 1992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend's abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat, agreeing to help her friends hide the body. This murder sets Beth and her friends on a path of escalating violence and vengeance as they realize many other young women in the world need protecting too. 2022: Determined to use time travel to create a safer future, Tess has dedicated her life to visiting key moments in history and fighting for change. But rewriting the timeline isn’t as simple as editing one person or event. And just when Tess believes she's found a way to make an edit that actually sticks, she encounters a group of dangerous travelers bent on stopping her at any cost. Tess and Beth’s lives intertwine as war breaks out across the timeline--a war that threatens to destroy time travel and leave only a small group of elites with the power to shape the past, present, and future. Against the vast and intricate forces of history and humanity, is it possible for a single person’s actions to echo throughout the timeline? Presented in partnership with the Wisconsin Science Festival. Annalee Newitz is an American journalist, editor, and author of fiction and nonfiction. They are the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship from MIT, and have written for Popular Science, The New Yorker , and the Washington Post . They founded the website io9 and served as Editor-in-Chief from 2008–2015, and then became Editor-in-Chief at and Tech Culture Editor at Ars Technica. Their book Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction was nominated for the LA Times Book Prize in science. Their first novel, Autonomous , won a Lambda award. Tor.com. Science fiction. Fantasy. The universe. And related subjects. Annalee Newitz. Fiction and Excerpts [7] #Selfcare. Read Annalee Newitz’s The Future of Another Timeline : Chapter Five. #Selfcare. In a near-future San Francisco where the gig economy has made work more precarious than ever, Edwina is an average twenty-something scrambling to hold down her job with a major skin care brand. Until her awful boss does something you should never do—angers the fae on social media—and the struggles of her job take on an even nastier shade. The Sex Chart That Changed My Life: Spectrums of Sexuality in John Varley’s Wizard. I was fifteen when a good friend loaned me his battered copy of John Varley’s novel Wizard . At that point in my life, I was the only girl running with an all-male group of nerds who were obsessed with computers and science fiction. Because my friends were mostly guys, I’d started to wonder if there was something kind of weird about my gender, and maybe my sexuality too. But I wasn’t sure what that meant. And then I leafed through Wizard . In the section after the title page, where fantasy novels have maps, Varley had a complicated chart of all the sexual positions possible for his aliens, the Titanides, who possessed three sets of genitals. Every year, the Titanides competed for the best sexual positions, and the winners were allowed to reproduce. As I looked over the little boxes full of circles and arrows indicating group sex, solo sex, gay sex, and whatever-the-hell sex, I felt seen for the first time. The Rise of Geoscience Fiction: Seven Books About Remaking the World. Though science is a wide-ranging and varied pursuit, science fiction tends to focus almost exclusively on astronomy and physics, with the occasional dip into medical science. But that’s changing. Pioneers like Ursula Le Guin began to center anthropology and sociology in the genre fifty years ago, and today we’re seeing SF that explores environmental science, molecular biology, neuroscience, and more. My particular favorite is geology, also known as Earth science—or, if you’re beyond our little blue marble, planetary science. My new novel The Future of Another Timeline is about time traveling geologists, and my inspirations come from other books that foreground the work of people who taste rocks, control plate tectonics, and explore the ecosystems of other worlds. Here are seven works that define the new subgenre of geoscience fiction. Read Annalee Newitz’s The Future of Another Timeline : Chapter Five. From Annalee Newitz comes a story of time travel, murder, and the lengths we’ll go to protect the ones we love. The Future of Another Timeline publishes September 24th with Tor Books. Read chapter three below, or get caught up with chapters one, two, three, and four. Read Annalee Newitz’s The Future of Another Timeline : Chapter Four. From Annalee Newitz comes a story of time travel, murder, and the lengths we’ll go to protect the ones we love. The Future of Another Timeline publishes September 24th with Tor Books. Read chapter four below, or get caught up with chapters one, two, and three. Read an Excerpt from The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz. From Annalee Newitz comes a story of time travel, murder, and the lengths we’ll go to protect the ones we love. The Future of Another Timeline publishes September 24th with Tor Books. Read chapter three below, or head back to the beginning with chapters one and two. Old Media. The story of a freed slave and a robot professor, trying to figure out what it means to be in love while they watch old anime from the 21st century. Autonomous. Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin Hood, fabricating cheap scrips for poor people who can’t otherwise afford them. But her latest drug hack has left a trail of lethal overdoses as people become addicted to their work, doing repetitive tasks until they become unsafe or insane. Hot on her trail, an unlikely pair: Eliasz, a brooding military agent, and his robotic partner, Paladin. As they race to stop information about the sinister origins of Jack’s drug from getting out, they begin to form an uncommonly close bond that neither of them fully understand. And underlying it all is one fundamental question: Is freedom possible in a culture where everything, even people, can be owned? Annalee Newitz’s science fiction debut Autonomous is available September 19th from Tor Books. Read chapter 3 below, and check out additional excerpts at the Tor/Forge and on Boing Boing. The Truth in Fiction. There are some truths you can only tell in fiction. I’ve been a professional writer for most of my adult life, but it’s only recently that I wanted to write fiction. As a reader, I’ve been a voracious consumer of science fiction since I was a kid. But when it came to writing, I preferred to focus on the awe-inspiring real world of scientific discovery. As a science journalist, I’ve reported on stories from medieval reservoirs in Cambodia to underground cities in Turkey, and from laser- packed labs at MIT to a massive genome sequencing facility in California. But I never reported on the stories I’ve always told myself privately, in my own head. Canadian Prairie Futurism: Looking at Tomorrow without Forgetting the Past. On a lazy evening in Regina, Saskatechwan, you can go to a bar called The Fat Badger, grab a beer, and put a little money into the jukebox if you want to hear an old country song about the prairies. Except the jukebox is my cousin, a soft-spoken guy named Marshall Burns, strumming guitar with his band The Alley Dawgs and singing as many classics as they know (and there are a lot). It’s the kind of thing you might have seen here 80 years ago. Or that you might see 180 years from now. Two summers ago, when I was finishing the first draft of my novel Autonomous , I watched Marshall play and thought about the future. Back then he was at Leopold’s Tavern, and I’d come to the crowded bar with a bunch of family after a long dinner full of conversations about politics and art. This is the sort of thing we might do more often if there were an apocalypse, I mused. We’d gather in some communal shelter, after a day of hunting and gathering in the trashed wastes. Then somebody from our family would start to sing. We’d raise our voices too, to take our minds off the famine and plague and wildfires. Scatter, Adapt, and Remember (Excerpt) In its 4.5 billion-year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it? How? In this brilliantly speculative work of popular science, Annalee Newitz, editor of io9.com, explains that although global disaster is all but inevitable, our chances of long-term species survival are better than ever. Scatter, Adapt, and Remember explores how scientific breakthroughs today will help us avoid disasters tomorrow, from simulating tsunamis or studying central Turkey’s ancient underground cities, to cultivating cyanobacteria for “living cities” or designing space elevators to make space colonies cost-effective. Readers of this book will be equipped scientifically, intellectually, and emotionally to face whatever our future holds. Latest Posts. Sylas K BarrettReading The Wheel of Time: Women Make Their Own Choices in Robert Jordan’s The Fires of Heaven (Part 32) 11 hours ago Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. PillsworthCould Be Worse… We Guess: T. 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Newtiz also worked as a policy analyst in 2004 at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She has even co-founded the magazine called Other, along with C.J. Anders. This periodical ran between 2002 and 2007. Between 2008 and 2015, author Newitz worked as the Editor in Chief media venture owned by called io9, as well as its direct descendent called Gizmodo, which is the design and & technology blog of Gawker. From 2016, Newitz is working as the Tech Culture Editor of the technology site known as Ars Technica. Author Newitz was born in the year 1969, and spent her initial years growing up in Irvine, California. She completed her school education from the Irvine High School. She shifted to Berkeley in California in 1987. Newtiz began her freelance writing stint in 1996. Later, she completed her Ph.D from the UC Berkeley in the English & American Studies. Her course included image dissertations of psychopaths, capitalism, and monsters in the 20th century popular culture of America. Its contents later appeared in the form of a book from the Duke University Press. Author Newitz started her career in journalism and novel writing in the year 1999 after receiving an invitation for writing a weekly column for Metro Silicon Valley. Then this column went on to run in numerous venues for around 9 years. Following this, author Newitz started working for San Francisco Guardian. The Knight Fellowship awarded to author Newitz in Science Journalism helped her as a research student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2007-2009, author Newitz was on board the CPRS. Immediately after this, she joined famous commentator and Hugo Award winning author for founding the Other magazine. During the initial quarter of 2008, Newitz was approached by the for starting a blog about science fiction. They dubbed it as io9 and asked Newitz to serve as its editor in chief. Newitz worked at this post until 2015 when io9 was merged with Gizmodo, which is another design and technology blog by Gawker media. This new venture’s leadership was also handed over to author Newitz. In the month of November of the same year, she announced that she has decided to leave Gawker to work for Ars Technica. Both the parents of author Newitz are English teachers. Her mother, Cynthia, teaches in a high school, while her father, Marty, works at a community college. Newitz’s father is of the Jewish origin, while her mother is a former Methodist and a current white Southerner. As a result of this, author Newitz likes to call herself as a biethnic. Some of the most popular published works of author Newitz have feature in New Scientist, AlterNet, Wired, Popular Science, Salon.com, etc. In addition to the online and print periodicals, author Newitz has also published several books and short stories. An initial book written by Annalee Newitz is entitled ‘Scatter, Adapt, and Remember’. This book was released by the Doubleday publication in the year 2013. The book describes that the population of Earth has been erased at least 5 times in the 4.5 billion years of history. Major incidents have occurred due to asteroid impacts, methane smothering, freezing due to extra cold temperatures, and megavolcanic eruptions. Now that, one more global disaster is headed the Earth’s way, the requirement of the time is to find a solution as quickly as possible so as to prevent another mass extinction. At the start of the book’s plot, author Newitz has mentioned that the Homo Sapiens have been at crossroads as a species. The study of the turbulent past of our planet suggests that a major catastrophic disaster has taken place in a long time and it seems that we are overdue for one such thing to happen. And this time, the disaster might happen due to human interference or by nature. The prospect seems to be a frightening one because the past disasters, including meteor strikes and cosmic radiation bombardment, have resulted in mass destruction and extinction of life on Earth. On several occasions, almost 75 percent of the species have died out. However, author Newitz has explained in the book that even though a major global disaster is inevitable in the near future, the chances of survival of the species for a long term are quite high. The humans in the past have come very close to extinction on more than one occasion in the past million years and have managed to avoid it narrowly. However, every time such a thing has happened, several creatures survived and evolved to adapt to the harsh conditions. This brilliant speculative work focuses on the long history of humanity in facing new threats and experiencing narrow escapes. More importantly, the book explores how that recent scientific breakthroughs can help to avoid the disasters in the future. Another mind blowing written by author Newitz in her literary career is called ‘Autonomous’. This book was released by the Tor Books in 2017. Author Newitz has introduced the chief characters in this novel as Jack, Joe, Paladin, and a few others. At the beginning of the story of the book, Jack is introduced as a rakish female pirate, who is related to the pharmaceutical world. She moves around the world in a submarine of her own. Jack is known to be a notorious antipatent scientist, who considers herself a Robin Hood type heroine. She fights to provide drugs to poor people at cheaper rates. But, the latest drug distributed by her has left a trail of overdoses throughout North America, that is causing lethal consequences as people are getting to work. Because of this, Jack is being trailed by an unusual pair comprising of an emotionally absent military agent named Joe and his robot partner named Paladin. The agent and the robot seem to have fallen in love as opposed to all the expectations. Overall, the story alternates between the Jack’s activities and those of her co-conspirators, as well as Paladin and Joe. All of these try their level best to put a halt to a lethal drug epidemic that has resulted in train crashes, flooding, and life’s destructions in New York City.