Automated Alice - Hardcover

Noon, Jeff

 
9780517704905: Automated Alice
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0517704900 ISBN 13: 9780517704905
Verlag: Crown Pub, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

On a dull and rainy afternoon in Manchester, desperate to avoid the question of ellipses (on which her Great Aunt Ermintrude is sure to test her this afternoon!) Alice wonders instead about the twelve pieces missing from her jigsaw puzzle of the London Zoo. Suddenly - oh dear! - her Great Aunt's parrot, Whippoorwill, gets loose, and Alice pursues him into the workings of the grandfather clock, emerging in the Manchester of 1998 - a world of automated wonders and inspired nonsense with a distinctly nineteenth-century flavor.
The elusive Whippoorwill leads Alice along with a series of enigmatic riddles, causing her to become the prime suspect in a series of Jigsaw Murders. Chased by Civil Serpents, confounded by mutant hybrids, sinister game-play, chaos theory, quantum physics, computermites, tickling Vurt feathers, and an invisible cat called Quark, Alice discovers, with help from her automated alter ego, in the curiousest of places in this curiousest of worlds, one after another of her missing jigsaw pieces. Not until she finds all twelve will she be able to partake of the radishes of time and return to her own present.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jeff Noon is a musician, a painter, and a playwright.  He was born on the outskirts of Manchester, England, where he still lives today.  He is the author of  Vurt , which won the 1994 Arthur C. Clarke Award, and  Pollen.  He is the recipient of the 1995 John W,. Cambell Award for best new writer.

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d 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.

Whippoorwill leads Alice along with a series of enigmatic riddles, and Alice soon encounters a part-man, part-badger named Captain Ramshackle, Professor of Randomology, and the logical side of her own self in the person of an automated garden statue name Celia.

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Verlag
Crown Pub
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0517704900
ISBN 13 
9780517704905
Einband
Tapa dura
Zeichner
Trumbore Harry
Anzahl der Seiten
223
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