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Can home be a place you've never been, a place no one has ever been?The White Cloud is the most audacious experiment the human species has ever undertaken-to search for a new Earth. The ship and its crew exist for a solitary purpose-to reach a distant planet and establish a colony. However, the vast majority of people undertaking this journey will not live to see its result, nor were they part of the decision-making process to leave.A novel-in-stories, following the many generations who make the journey, The Voyage of the White Cloud asks how you can find meaning as a slave to destiny, a mere stepping-stone in history.These are the stories of the most ordinary people on a most extraordinary journey.

After settling into a new job, new home and new living arrangements, Andersson Dexter has finally found a comfortable life in both the physical and virtual worlds. But that sense of security is blown apart when an explosion rocks Dex's real-life Nice neighbourhood. He and his colleagues begin an investigation into a string of seemingly senseless and random vandalism attacks, that remind them all of similar attacks in the simulated world Marionette City. While at first the attacks seem more like a nuisance than a threat, Dex discovers that there are more serious - even fatal - consequences. As the trail leads Dex closer and closer to home, he is forced to confront the lengths he is willing to go for justice.

Tropical adventures. A rag-tag sailing crew. Running off-grid data servers? Sounds legit. Devi Jones is nearly done her internship for Really Remote Desktop, a cloud data storage company that keeps their servers in odd places, like the bilge of the sailing vessel Byte Bucket. Like any sea voyage, her time on board has had its ups and downs, but she is finally starting to feel like she belongs - maybe too much. As the reality of returning to the mundane world of school and family hits her, Devi finds herself torn between the life she misses and the person she has become.

Tropical adventures. A rag-tag sailing crew. Running off-grid data servers? Sounds legit. Devi Jones is halfway though her internship for Really Remote Desktop, a cloud data storage company that keeps their servers in odd places, like the bilge of the sailing vessel Byte Bucket. Devi is finally learning the ropes; she's starting to make sense of the crew, the boat, her job. But she's about to learn the hardest lesson of the sea - that you aren't in control when the storm hits.

Tropical adventures. A rag-tag sailing crew. Running off-grid data servers? Sounds legit. Devi Jones is an intern for Really Remote Desktop, a cloud data storage company that keeps their servers in odd places, like the bilge of a hundred-foot sailboat called the Byte Bucket. Devi and the crew are crossing the Pacific - not bad for someone who'd never even stepped on a sailboat a month ago. Between rough weather, making peace with the rest of the crew and what looks like a hacker's attack on her servers, Devi has plenty of problems - and they haven't even made landfall.

Tropical adventures. A rag-tag sailing crew. Running off-grid data servers? Sounds legit. Devi Jones is a year away from graduating with a Computer Science degree and it's internship time. But usually the ship part isn't quite so literal. She gets hired by Really Remote Desktop, a cloud data storage company that keeps their servers in odd places, like the bilge of a hundred-foot sailboat. How can a homebody like Devi step on to a boat with six strangers and sail away from everything she has ever known? All while trying to do her best at her first real job? Being in a tropical paradise helps - but only until things start to go wrong.

Two dozen tales of far away worlds, future Earths, a reality that lives beside our own. From childhood dreams that haunt adulthood to alien creatures trapped in a never-ending cycle to visions of a future among the stars, the stories in this collection span the realms of the fantastic but with a core of humanity. You'll find hope in dystopia, despair in perfection and one or two bug-eyed aliens. Includes "Fire.Escape." (shortlisted for the Sir Julius Vogel award for best novella, 2013) and "The Interview" - both part of the Andersson Dexter universe.

Fifty-two plans gone wrong from Plan B Magazine. Featuring stories by: Patti Abbott Ed Ahern Nick Andreychuk Tom Barlow Aislinn Batstone Doug Black Craig Faustus Buck Frank Byrns Gary Cahill Sally Carpenter Sarah M. Chen Ian Creasey Peter DiChellis Jim Downer Kevin R. Doyle John H. Dromey MJ Gardner Robert Guffey Michael Haynes Martin Roy Hill Adam Howe Ahmed A. Khan BV Lawson Mary Ann B. Lee Laird Long Josh MacLeod S.R. Mastrantone Michael McGlade Tekla Dennison Miller Mike Miner Kou K. Nelson Mike O'Reilly Jeff Poole Jed Power Eryk Pruitt C.D. Reimer Stephen D. Rogers Wayne Scheer Tom Swoffer Dan Stout Lavie Tidhar Elaine Togneri J. M. Vogel Tom Ward Daniel Marshall Wood Richard Zwicker

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. However, Hamlet v.1's memories were not 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.