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Annalee Newitz (born May 7, 1969) is an American journalist, editor, and author of both fiction and nonfiction. From 1999 to 2008, Newitz wrote a syndicated weekly column called Techsploitation, and from 2000 to 2004 was the culture editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. In 2004, Newitz became a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. With Charlie Jane Anders, they also co-founded Other magazine, a periodical that ran from 2002 to 2007. From 2008 to 2015, Newitz was editor-in-chief of Gawker-owned media venture io9, and subsequently its direct descendant Gizmodo, Gawker's design and technology blog. They have written for the periodicals Popular Science, Film Quarterly and Wired. As of 2019, Newitz is a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times.
Around 1999, Newitz co-founded the Post-World War II American Literature and Culture Database in an attempt to chronicle modern literature and popular culture.
Newitz was awarded a Knight Science Journalism for 2002 to 2003, supporting them as a research fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Knight Science Journalism, 2015, "Alumni Fellows, Class of 2003: Annalee Newitz, culture editor, San Francisco Bay Guardian", From 2004 to 2005 Newitz was a policy analyst for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and from 2007 to 2009 was on the board of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders, a Hugo Award-winning author and commentator, co-founded Other magazine.Camille Dodero, 2003, "The New Outcasts," in the Boston Phoenix, November 14–20, 2003 [defunct weekly as of 2013, see
In 2008, Gawker media asked Newitz to start a blog about science and science fiction, dubbed io9, for which Newitz served as editor-in-chief from its founding until 2015 when it merged with Gizmodo, another Gawker media design and technology blog property; Newitz then took on the same leadership of the new venture. In November 2015, Newitz left Gawker to join Ars Technica, where Newitz has been employed as tech culture editor since December 2015. Newitz is a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times.
Newitz's first novel, Autonomous, was published in 2017. Autonomous won the Lambda Literary Award and was nominated for the Nebula Award and Locus Award in 2018 for best novel.
Newitz's second novel, The Future of Another Timeline, published in 2019, was described on their website as: "... about time travel and what it would be like to meet yourself as a teenager and have a really, really intense conversation with her about how fucked up your high school friends are."Annalee Newitz, 2018, author's own website (online), techsploitation.com ; accessed October 20, 2018. The book was received with acclaim by critics, and was a nominee for the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
Their 2014 non-fiction science book Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize. They also wrote Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age, published in 2021.
They have also written for publications including Wired, Popular Science, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Slate, The Washington Post, Smithsonian, and more. They have published short stories in Lightspeed, Shimmer Magazine, Apex, and Technology Review's Twelve Tomorrows.
In March 2018, with their partner and co-host Charlie Jane Anders, Newitz launched the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct, which "explores the meaning of science fiction, and how it's relevant to real-life science and society." The podcast won the Hugo Award for Best Fancast in 2019.
Newitz is non-binary, and has used they/them pronouns since 2019.
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Our Opinions Are Correct The Future of Another Timeline
Bibliography
Newitz's work has been published in Popular Science, Wired Magazine, Salon.com, New Scientist, Metro Silicon Valley, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and at AlterNet. In addition to these print and online periodicals, they have published the following short stories and books:
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Non-fiction
(1997). 9781135204495, Routledge Press. ISBN 9781135204495 Co-edited, with Matt Wray
(1998). 9780814757925, New York University Press. ISBN 9780814757925
(2026). 9780822337454, Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822337454
(2026). 9781580051903, Seal Press. ISBN 9781580051903 Co-edited with Charlie Anders.
(2026). 9780385535922, Doubleday. ISBN 9780385535922
(2026). 9780062204707, William Morrow. ISBN 9780062204707 Edited by Kathryn Cramer and Ed Finn.
(2026). 9780393652673, Norton. ISBN 9780393652673
(2026). 9780393881516, Norton. ISBN 9780393881516
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