Automated Alice
Jeff Noon
Transworld Pub
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 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 too ... a series of misadventures, even weirder than your  dreams.