Hamlet Won a Sir Julius Vogel Award

July 8, 2024

This weekend at Continuity, the 2024 Aotearoa New Zealand national SFF convention, Hamlet, Prince of Robots won the Sir Julius Vogel Award for best novella!

Thanks to the voters and my esteemed fellow nominees for their excellent company!

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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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