Automated Alice

Noon, Jeff

| 1996

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In the last years of his life, the fantasist, Lewis Carroll, wrote a third Alice book. This mysterious work was never published or even shown to anybody. It has only recently been discovered. Now, at last, the world can read of Automated Alice and her fabulous adventures in the future. That's not quite true. "Automated Alice" was in reality written by Zenith O'Clock, the writer of wrongs. In the book, he sends Alice through a clock's workings. She travels through time, tumbling from the Victorian age to land in 1998, in Manchester, a small town in the North of England. Oh dear, that's not at all right. This trequel to "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" was actually written by Jeff Noon. Zenith O'Clock is only a character invented by Jeff Noon and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely accidental. What Alice encounters in the automated future is mostly accidental...

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Anne M

2011-10-25

Betyg

Svår bok att översätta då den innehåller många ordlekar. Noon lyckas med att "låta som" L.Carrol.

Liza Bolin

2011-08-05

Betyg

Noon gör en lysande uppföljare till Alice in Wonderland och Through the looking-glass, lyckas få till språket till äkta Carollska!