Title: Ack-Ack Macaque

Title: Ack-Ack Macaque Title Record # 930607
Author: Gareth L. Powell
Date: 2007-09-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Series: Ack-Ack Macaque
Language: English

Note: Subsequently expanded to novel length.

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.

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2007	Ack-Ack Macaque [as by Gareth Lyn Powell]

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Interzone, #212 September-October 2007	2007-09-00	ed. Andy Cox, Andrew Hedgecock, Jetse de Vries	TTA Press		£3.75^?£: UK pound	68+ [4]	A4^?21 cm by 29.7 cm or 8.3" by 11.7" magazine, used by some UK and European magazines	mag	Osvaldo Gonzalez
The Last Reef	2008-08-01	Gareth L. Powell	Elastic Press	978-0-9553181-7-7	£5.99^?£: UK pound	iv+ 181	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Eran Cantrell
Transmissions from Beyond, 20 July 2009	2009-07-20	ed. Editors of Transmissions from Beyond	TTA Press		$0.00^?$: US dollar		digital audio download^?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.	mag	SMS
The Last Reef	2012-04-01	Gareth L. Powell	Anarchy Books	978-1-908328-38-0	$0.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
Ack-Ack Macaque	2012-12-26	Gareth L. Powell	Solaris	978-1-78108-060-3	$8.99^?$: US dollar	407	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Jake Murray
Ack-Ack Macaque: The Complete Trilogy	2017-12-05	Gareth L. Powell	Solaris	978-1-78618-088-9	£7.49^?£: UK pound		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	omni
Ack-Ack Macaque: The Complete Trilogy	2018-01-11	Gareth L. Powell	Solaris	978-1-78108-605-6	$15.00^?$: US dollar	792	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	omni	Jake Murray
The Last Reef and Other Stories	2020-04-14	Gareth L. Powell	Gareth L. Powell		£2.99^?£: UK pound		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
The Last Reef and Other Stories	2020-08-24	Gareth L. Powell	Gareth L. Powell	979-8-6710-9022-2	£7.99^?£: UK pound	278	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll

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