Annalee Newitz is the editor-in-chief of io9.com, and is the author of Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction (Doubleday). She’s published her work in Wired, Popular Science, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and the New Yorker. She has a Ph.D. in American Studies from UC Berkeley, and was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.

Annalee’s Shimmer stories:

• Unclaimed, Issue 18