Hamlet Prince of Robots

<p><strong>Something is rotten in the state of cybernetics.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>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 entirely lost in the accident.</p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>A beat-by-beat retelling of the Shakespeare classic <em>Hamlet Prince of Robots</em> grapples with conscience ambition and pain and what it means to be or not to be human.</p>