Automated Alice

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name = Automated Alice
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author = Jeff Noon
illustrator = Harry Trumbore
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country = Great Britain
language = English
series = Vurt series
genre = Science fiction/ Cyberpunk
publisher = Doubleday
release_date = 1996
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media_type = Print (Paperback & Hardback)
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isbn = ISBN 0-385-40808-0 (first edition, paperback)
preceded_by = Pollen
followed_by = Nymphomation

Automated Alice is a fantastical book by British author Jeff Noon, first published in 1996. The book follows Alice's travels to a future Manchester city populated by "Newmonians", "Civil Serpents" and a vanishing cat.

The book was written as both the third book in the Vurt series and the "trequel" to the famous Lewis Carroll books, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.

Plot summary

The story of "Automated Alice" tells of the character of Alice from Lewis Carroll's books in a future version of Manchester, England. After following a white termite through a grandfather clock, Alice, her parrot Whippoorwill and Alice's doll Celia, they get lost in a world inhabited by "Newmonians", entities made from two objects combined, for example a zebra and a human.

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