Hamlet, Prince of Robots

by M. Darusha Wehm

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"Elsinore Robotics is on the cusp of a breakthrough-the company is poised to create the first humanoid androids powered by true artificial intelligence. Their only rival, Norwegian Technologies, lost a publicly streamed contest between their flagship model, Fortinbras, and Elsinore's HAM(let) v.1. But when the first Hamlet model is found irreparably deactivated, the apparent victim of wild malware, the field of consumer cybernetics is thrown wide open. However, Hamlet v.1's memories were not show more entirely lost in the accident. Hamlet v.2 swears to avenge his progenitor, but is plagued by the aftereffects of integrating Old Hamlet's backup into his own neural matrix. Beset by doubts about whether his feelings are truly his own, he worries his love for his boyfriend, Horatio, is an illusion, all the while driven by a consuming need for revenge. While he has a method, there is a madness in it, and Hamlet's actions will leave no corner of Elsinore unscathed. A beat-by-beat retelling of the Shakespeare classic, Hamlet, Prince of Robots grapples with conscience, ambition, and pain, and what it means to be, or not to be, human." -- show less

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M. Darusha Wehm
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Original publication date
2023
People/Characters
Gertrude Dane; Errol Polonius; Hamlet (fictional android); Horatio
First words
The world imagines me to be a being of computation, but truly I am a creature of time—the ceaseless metre of one nanosecond ticking over to the next the music of my soul.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)But Hamlet was gone and the rest was silence.
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Adam, Pip; Heartfield, Kate; Divya, S. B.; Buchanan, Andi C; Moss, Mia V.

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Fiction and Literature, Poetry, Science Fiction
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813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
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Reviews
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Rating
½ (3.50)
Languages
English
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Paper, Ebook
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