Noon presents Automatic Alice as a sequel to two famous books by Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. This time, Alice finds herself from the era of Queen Victoria to the futuristic Manchester of the future, inhabited by Executive Reptiles, people suffering from “neumonia” and an invisible cat named Quark. He ends up at the cost of insatiable curiosity, setting off in pursuit of a parrot named Nightjar, which has behaved disgracefully throughout history. And now Alice wants to return to her native past, to the year 1820, to her grandmother Ermintrude, to put the fugitive in a cage, and to find out what ellipsis is...