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Episode 15

May 18, 2012

Final episode

[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/TheBeautyOfOurWeapons1/PB-Weapons-15.mp3]

Episode 14

May 11, 2012

Dex starts working on Captain Zhang’s plan.

[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/TheBeautyOfOurWeapons1/PB-Weapons-14.mp3]

Episode 13

May 4, 2012

Dex asks for help in some unlikely places.

[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/TheBeautyOfOurWeapons1/PB-Weapons-13.mp3]

Episode 12

April 27, 2012

Captain Zhang delivers an ultimatum and Dex stumbles across important information.

[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/TheBeautyOfOurWeapons1/PB-Weapons-12.mp3]

Episode 11

April 20, 2012

Annabelle shares a shocking revelation.

[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/TheBeautyOfOurWeapons1/PB-Weapons-11.mp3]

Episode 10

April 13, 2012

Rev. Alford divulges a secret while Annabelle takes some time off.

[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/TheBeautyOfOurWeapons1/PB-Weapons-10.mp3]

Episode 9

April 6, 2012

Dex chases down some leads and Annabelle shows up unexpectedly.

[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/TheBeautyOfOurWeapons1/PB-Weapons-09.mp3]

Episode 8

March 30, 2012

Dex and Annabelle have a night on the town.

[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/TheBeautyOfOurWeapons1/PB-Weapons-08.mp3]

Episode 7

March 23, 2012

The past comes back to haunt Dex.

[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/TheBeautyOfOurWeapons1/PB-Weapons-07.mp3]

Episode 6

March 16, 2012

Things go from bad to worse for Stella Bish and Dex runs into someone at the bar.

[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/TheBeautyOfOurWeapons1/PB-Weapons-06.mp3]

Episode 5

March 9, 2012

Dex follows up on a couple of hunches.

[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/TheBeautyOfOurWeapons1/PB-Weapons-05.mp3]

Episode 4

March 7, 2012

Mack Larsen horns in on the cases and Annabelle analyzes the data.

[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/TheBeautyOfOurWeapons1/PB-Weapons-04.mp3]

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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