Our Parents’ Children by Alex Lodge. Once there was a girl called Mary who lived with her father. Mary’s mother left when Mary was little, and all she had to remember her by was a lock of hair, kept in a golden necklace. Mary had a boyfriend, called Joe. Joe had ideas. And Mary had access to scientific equipment. And they both were very, very angry at the world. And as the saying goes, if you cannot inspire love, you can always cause fear.
 Our Parents’ Children is a gothic fairytale about a strange girl who thought she could rewrite the past – and the price that we all paid for it. Please click any thumbnail for a closeup view.

Second Afterlife by Ralph McCubbin Howell. Dan has done it all – Facebook, Bebo, Warcraft, that unfortunate foray on NZDating. Profiles, used and deleted. Now he’s ready to reinvent himself. It’s time for a new profile. However, there’s a hitch. It turns out there’s a Second Afterlife – a dark underworld of the internet, it is a very real and dangerous landscape of broken memes, deleted pages, and the ghosts of profiles past… Second Afterlife is a dark comedy about life (and death) in the digital age. Inspired by Dante’s Inferno, and in the tradition of Scott Pilgrim vs the World, it is a twisted allegory for the facebook generation – a poetic, ass-kicking romp to the darkest corners of web. Please click any thumbnail for a closeup view.

Uncle Minotaur by Dan Bain. Greta is a weird kid. The other girls don’t like her, her Dad left, and her Mum won’t get off the computer. When she starts seeing things that aren’t there she has to make a choice – is she going to let all this ride or get brave and wreak some Greek classical carnage? From the author of Gameplan comes a new drama about eye surgery, being brave and dealing with your monsters. Please click any thumbnail for a closeup view.