I Feel Machine: Stories by Shaun Tan, Tillie Walden, Box Brown, Krent Able, Erik Svetoft and Julian Hanshaw
Edited by Julian Hanshaw and Krent Able
(SelfMadeHero £14.99)

BOX BROWN’S Uploading, the first story in I Feel Machine, ponders mortality, the need for human contact, obedience to authority and belief in the afterlife. With a beautiful blocky and minimalistic style, he depicts a world where the majority of human life is experienced online via a virtual-reality contraption reminiscent of an antique diving helmet.

Technology has allowed people to exist for 1,000 years and, at the end of their lives, their human bodies are discarded. Their soul, they are told, is uploaded to a server for the rest of eternity. Just as you begin to mull over the metaphysical intricacies of that, Erik Svetoft’s STHLMTransfer yanks us into an unsettlingly surreal world where human bodies have merged with technology.