Automated Alice

This is an excellent take-off on Alice in Wonderland. You have Alice who ends up in an alternate Wonderland when she chases her parrot up a grandfather clock.

The characters she encounters are just as whimsical as Lewis Carroll's, Alice spending her early time there with intelligent termites (she is as small as they are at this point) who have a thing for answering questions. She finds out there are automatons called Terbots which are animated by termites (especially in their brains.) There are windshield vipers, and a massive group of beings who are part human, part animal or part human, part thing (like having a kitchen sink for a head).

There's a reason for this, of course. There's also a series of murders going on where these people are being killed and their parts are being rearranged. There's a whole group of snakes that are the civil serpents and at least one of them seems to be out to kill Alice.

This is a wonderful take-off on Alice, perhaps the best one that I have read yet since it captures the feeling of Alice in Wonderland. Not much makes sense, of course, but that's the way Wonderland is. A must-add for your Alice in Wonderland connection.

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