My Review: Captain Tova Lir has what is quite possibly the best possible job for the protagonist of a cozy science fiction story. She’s a baby bot foster mom. Just think of it, new, young bots come to her to learn how to be real people. Not human people, but people all the same. It’s a tough job, filled with a surprising amount of tough love, but ‘Captain Mom’ is the very best at it.

My Review: I picked this one up for the title, because really, “Automatic Noodle” or as my brain elided it - noodles. How does that really work? Also, because I’ve been reading a lot of AI and robot stories the past little while, starting with Emergent Properties by Aimee Ogden, Day Zero by C. Robert Cargill and Mal Goes to War…