Automated Alice
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An Alice in Wonderland for the 1990s. But which 1990s??? It is an ordinary day for Alice at the Manchester home of her tyrannical Great Aunt Ermintrude and Great Uncle Mortimer. Left to her own devices, and with only a jigsaw of London Zoo for entertainment, in a moment of kindness she releases her great aunt's loudmouthed parrot Whippoorwill from his cage. To her horror, he promptly disappears, almost by magic. When she steps into her grandfather clock with only her doll, Celia, for company to look for the vanished bird, Alice is transported in time from 1860 to 1998, to an automated age inhabited by a strange menagerie of man/animal cross-breeds - the badgerman, the policedogmen, the civil serpents. Even in a world where a randomologist makes miscalculations and zebras do the crossing, Whippoorwill is still managing to be a menace, creating trouble for Alice with the inhabitants of this off-kilter world. Unfortunately so is the Jigsaw Killer, who leaves a piece of Alice's jigsaw at the scene of his crimes. Illustrated with line-drawings and overflowing with imaginative exuberance, puns and maniacal wordplay, Automated Alice is a stunningly skewed retelling of Alice in Wo
Author: Jeff Noon
Format: Paperback, 256 pages
Published: 1997, Transworld Publishers Ltd, United Kingdom
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Description
An Alice in Wonderland for the 1990s. But which 1990s??? It is an ordinary day for Alice at the Manchester home of her tyrannical Great Aunt Ermintrude and Great Uncle Mortimer. Left to her own devices, and with only a jigsaw of London Zoo for entertainment, in a moment of kindness she releases her great aunt's loudmouthed parrot Whippoorwill from his cage. To her horror, he promptly disappears, almost by magic. When she steps into her grandfather clock with only her doll, Celia, for company to look for the vanished bird, Alice is transported in time from 1860 to 1998, to an automated age inhabited by a strange menagerie of man/animal cross-breeds - the badgerman, the policedogmen, the civil serpents. Even in a world where a randomologist makes miscalculations and zebras do the crossing, Whippoorwill is still managing to be a menace, creating trouble for Alice with the inhabitants of this off-kilter world. Unfortunately so is the Jigsaw Killer, who leaves a piece of Alice's jigsaw at the scene of his crimes. Illustrated with line-drawings and overflowing with imaginative exuberance, puns and maniacal wordplay, Automated Alice is a stunningly skewed retelling of Alice in Wo
Automated Alice