No. 034, in seventeen platesCyberpunk Australian Fauna

These are studio portraits in a near-black room, lit with a single cold key light and a faint teal rim that picks out fur, feather and whisker. There is almost no colour beyond charcoal, smoke grey and the warm brown of a kangaroo's coat; the only accents are a red diode on a visor or a pink edge of light along a cockatoo's back. What ties the seventeen plates together is the hardware. Every animal wears a headset, visor or goggles, and wears it with total composure.

The line-up is unmistakably local. Three sulphur-crested cockatoos flare their crests over slim visors; three emus include one standing tall in an empty hall striped with strip lights; four wombats include one seated square to the camera with its headset pushed up like sunglasses, and another in a leather jacket. Kangaroos turn up in clear lab goggles and mirrored ski shades, flying foxes poke leathery ears around their visors, and a dingo in a buttoned beige shirt is easily the best-dressed of the lot.

Because the backgrounds fall away to black, the top of most frames is empty, and the clock lands in shadow above an ear or a crest. The cockatoo portraits are the exception: white feathers fill the upper third and soften a white clock, so keep those for the Home Screen. Everywhere else the near-black ground makes icons stand out, suits dark mode, and lets an OLED display switch the empty corners almost fully off.

Good for sci-fi readers, tech workers with a sense of humour, and anyone who has met an emu and suspected it was running hidden software. Four portraits are free in full resolution (Emu in a Visor; Cockatoo, Crest Up; Headset on the Brow; and Wombat Close-Up) and the other thirteen are premium.