Hamlet is a Sir Julius Vogel Award Finalist

April 18, 2024

I’m delighted to share that Hamlet, Prince of Robots is a finalist for the Sir Julius Vogel Award for best novella.

The Sir Julius Vogel awards are a fan-voted award recognizing excellence in science fiction, fantasy and horror from Aotearoa New Zealand.

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Hamlet, Prince of Robots

Sir Julius Vogel Award winner

Like Succession meets Blade Runner … an extremely compelling and satisfying read that allowed me to investigate my own place in our time of communion and interdependence with machines.

—Pip Adam, author of Acorn Prize winner The New Animals

Something is rotten in the state of cybernetics.

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.

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