An allegorical tale about the power of imagination... with ellipses.Life and daydreams merge; the far past meets one of the futures, and beautiful things ensue.Alice is one of two and part of a cast of dozens, and the words twist and turn like spaghetti, which creates the disconcerting of living inside someones stream of consciousness, yet such is the author's skill that the meaning is never lost and the flow is always smooth, and we arrive at our destination, which is pretty much exactly where we started, quickly, efficiently and none the worse for wear.Put another way, Alice is not Alice, yet she is, and she goes to the future, yet she doesn't. Sounds confusing, yet it isn't. I kinda liked it, and I kinda didn't, but I got through it mainly because it was finitely chaptered and smoothly written and it flowed faster than... a really fast thing.That's enough - you can stop reading now.Honest - there's nothing more below this.No, really; the review has stopped. Desist.What? You're still here? Sticky little thing ain't you.Look, this is getting ridiculous - go away already!Here's a poem I composed in a shop yesterday:Nowt today,Alas, alack,but rest assured,I will come back. Alice in Wonderland is great for kids, but I found Carroll's story a little too randomly goofy when I read it as an adult just prior to Automated Alice. Automated Alice continues that goofiness, but updated for adult readers (yet I think this still would work well as a youth novel). I'm not overly impressed with either, but there is something special about both works as well. There are a few references to Vurt and Pollen. I'd still recommend Vurt fans read this at some point, and its not a bad choice for adult fans of Alice in Wonderland who aren't familiar with Jeff Noon.
What do You think about Automated Alice (2000)?
Mediocre Lewis Carroll pastiche. Was hoping the author of Vurt would do something more interesting.
—nita
I remember really liking Vurt a decade ago but this was some fan-fiction-level bullshit.
—Dask
Wasn't crazy about this. Noon and Vurt are better.
—Marina42141
Too complication for it's own good.
—a_firelight_fan
