Mel Croucher

Deus Ex Machina

The billion-dollar video games industry had to start somewhere, and this is the hilarious, heartbreaking, inside story of how it all began and where it’s all headed. And in the middle of it all there was a game hailed as the best ever written. It was called Deus Ex Machina. It was a creative triumph and it was a commercial disaster. Meet the pirates, the nerds, the innovators, the charlatans, the superstars, the winners, the sinners, the good, the bad…

Devil's Acre

The world’s largest building collapses as terrorists launch weapons of mass destruction against the civilian population. Except this time the target is His Majesty’s Royal Dockyard. The superpower is England. The terrorists are American. And it’s 1776. Shock and awe, as a media war sows the seeds of fear, and panic sweeps the nation. The conspirators behind the atrocities are revealed to include a transvestite aristocrat, a crippled media baron…

Great Moments in Computing

With Robin Evans

This is the unexpurgated, hilarious and unflinching history of computers, of the lunatics who create them and of the idiots who use them, retold in cartoon form by Mel Croucher and Robin Evans.

Great Moments In Computing was the longest-running, most widely read and best loved computer…