Annalee Newitz

Annalee Newitz is an American journalist, author and editor who writes about science, technology, culture and the future. They are the founding editor of io9, the popular science fiction and futurism website, and a former editor-in-chief of Gizmodo. Their non-fiction includes Scatter, Adapt, and Remember and Four Lost Cities. Autonomous is their debut science fiction novel, set in 2144 in a world where pharmaceutical patents are enforced by lethal military robots and a drug pirate reverse-engineers patented medications to distribute them for free. The novel explores themes of intellectual property, bodily autonomy, artificial intelligence and the ethics of a future where everything from drugs to people can be owned. Available as both books and audiobooks, Annalee Newitz's fiction and non-fiction offer thought-provoking listening and reading for fans of science fiction and popular science who appreciate work that connects cutting-edge ideas with urgent questions about justice, freedom and the future.