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.