Writing online for the Atlantic, staff writer Niraj Chokshi yesterday noted the surprisingly poetic nonsense that is generated by Microsoft Word’s “autosummarize” feature. Appropriately, he tested the feature on Through the Looking-Glass and… [read full post]
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Mongoose Press Anthology of Chess Fiction reviewed
In April this year, Mongoose Press released the “first ever” anthology of contemporary chess fiction. Subscribers to our Yahoo news group will already know that one of the stories was… [read full post]
Campfire adaptation of Alice in Wonderland
Campfire Graphic Novels, a publishing house out of New Dehli, India, released their Alice in Wonderland this week, as part of their large and expanding series of comic versions of… [read full post]
“Like Alice, I have eaten eggs, certainly”: Wonderland-referencing poems in Asimov’s Science Fiction
The September 2010 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction hits newsstands today. The two poems in this issue both use Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland themes as their central metaphors. “The Now… [read full post]
Get Your Carroll On
There’s a series of comics at a site called Webcomics Nation, reminiscent in style to David Rees’ cut-&-paste web strips (My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable & Get Your War On),… [read full post]
Obese Alice & Cannabis-smoking Caterpillar in Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle
The Future of Alice Books, Part III of an Infinite Part Series
Several LCSNA members have noticed Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland featured in magazine advertisements for something called 100 Classic Books. Gary Brockman describes one ad thus: “Against a background of bookshelves… [read full post]
The Future of Alice Books, Part II of an Infinite Part Series
There’s more discussion on the Alice pop-up book app for the iPad (originally mentioned here in the post Through the LED Screen). The Atomic Antelope app ($9, or a free… [read full post]
Alice in Fiscal Wonderland and Alice in Manx, but not at the same time
Last month saw two new publications from Evertype, veritable fount of Alice parodies, translations, and rare reprints. (See the complete catalog here.) John Bull’s Adventures in Fiscal Wonderland, by Charles Geake and… [read full post]
Limited edition Folio Society facsimile of Alice’s Adventures under Ground
The Folio Society has published a facsimile of the original manuscript of Alice’s Adventures under Ground. The print run will be limited to 3,750 hand-numbered copies, each clad in goat… [read full post]