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Ack-Ack Macaque

Gareth L. Powell

First published August 2008
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story
Series Ack-Ack Macaque

Synopsis

The author of a cult anime series about a macaque who serves in the British Air Force in WWI sends her boyfriend into a deep depression when she leaves him for a marketing executive, who develops the character into a huge global commercial success; when she realizes how the character has been diluted for the mass market she leaves him and returns to her former boyfriend, but the character, now powered by the vast computing resources of the marketing company, breaks out of the simulation and wreaks havoc when it takes its military mission to the whole Internet.

Notes

Subsequently expanded to novel length.

Publications (8)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
August 2008 Cover The Last Reef and Other Stories Elastic Press Collection 45
July 2009 Cover Transmissions from Beyond, 20 July 2009 TTA Press MAGAZINE
April 2012 Cover The Last Reef Anarchy Books Collection
December 2012 Cover Ack-Ack Macaque Solaris Novel 387
December 2017 Cover Ack-Ack Macaque: The Complete Trilogy Solaris Omnibus
January 2018 Cover Ack-Ack Macaque: The Complete Trilogy Solaris Omnibus
April 2020 Cover The Last Reef and Other Stories Gareth L. Powell Collection |4
August 2020 Cover The Last Reef and Other Stories Gareth L. Powell Collection |4