Annalee Newitz

Annalee Newitz is a science journalist and science fiction writer who has published Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age, a national bestseller; Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction; and Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind. In turn, Newitz is the author of three sci-fi novels from Tor: The Terraformers, a national bestseller cited as a “best book of the year” by The London Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Library Journal; The Future of Another Timeline; and Autonomous which won the Lambda Literary Award and was nominated for the Nebula and Locus awards. With Charlie Jane Anders, Newitz cohosts the Hugo Award–winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. Newitz founded io9, was editor-in-chief of Gizmodo, and currently teaches media studies at University of San Francisco.