Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz


I loved this story of 4 robots starting a noodle shop in an independent 
California 2064 to cover their debts and avoid being sold off in slavery in 
America. It's a novella, so the author didn't deep dive into the many issues 
at play, but that fine. She didn't need to. If you need someone to explain the 
parallels from this story to the lives of African Americans or immigrants in 
this county at any time post Civil War you need to be reading history books, 
not sci-fi.