Title: Automated Alice
Title Record # 5810
Author: Jeff Noon
Date: 1996-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Vurt
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
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Author: Jeff Noon
Date: 1996-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Vurt
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Note: This book belongs in both the "Vurt" series and "Alice in Wonderland". See the Wikipedia link for details.
Synopsis: On a dull and rainy afternoon, in 19th-century Manchester, desperate to avoid the question of ellipses (on which her strict great-aunt Ermintrude is sure to test her this afternoon), Alice works on a jigsaw puzzle, only to find (frustratingly) that 12 pieces are missing from the picture of the London Zoo. Lamenting aloud, Alice is answered by her great-aunt's very talkative parrot, Whippoorwill. Prompted by Whippoorwill's increasingly intriguing riddles, Alice frees the him from his cage. Suddenly, in pursuit of the elusive bird, Alice falls into the workings of a grandfather clock and emerges in the Manchester of 1998-a world of automated wonders and inspired nonsense with a distinctly 19th-century flavor.
--From the jacket copy
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Awards
Place | Year and Award | Category |
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Preliminary Nominees | 1998 BFA | August Derleth Fantasy Award (Best Novel) |
Publications
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Automated Alice | 1996-00-00 | Jeff Noon | Bantam Books (UK) | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | |||||
Automated Alice | 1996-09-27 | Jeff Noon | Crown Publishers | 0-517-70490-0 | $21.00?$: US dollar |
223+ [4] |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Harry Trumbore | |
Automated Alice | 1996-11-00 | Jeff Noon | Doubleday (UK) | 0-385-40808-0 | £14.99?£: UK pound |
252 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Ian Murray , John Tenniel | |
Automated Alice | 1997-00-00 | Jeff Noon | Corgi | 0-552-14478-9 | £6.99?£: UK pound |
252 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | Ian Murray , John Tenniel | |
Automated Alice | 2000-00-00 | Jeff Noon | Black Swan | 0-552-99905-9 | £6.99?£: UK pound |
252 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel |
Reviews
- Review by Faren Miller (1996) in Locus, #430 November 1996
- Review by L. J. Hurst (1997) in Vector 193
- Review by Ken Brown (1997) in Interzone, #122 August 1997
- Review by Paul Di Filippo (1997) in Asimov's Science Fiction, September 1997
- Review by Steve Sneyd (1997) in The Zone and Premonitions, Winter 1997-98
- Review by Paul J. McAuley (1997) in Foundation, #70 Summer 1997
- Review by Colin Steele (2001) in SF Commentary, #77