![]() ![]() ![]() Both novels were assembled much later, very usefully, as The Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (omni 1960 rev vt More Annotated Alice 1990 The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Version 1999) edited and extensively annotated by Martin Gardner. It has been argued more seriously, by Brian W Aldiss among others, that the underlying logic of these "nonsense" adventures has provided a significant model for much of sf's typical reorderings of reality – certainly in most sf novels whose heroes' Paranoia about reality turns out to be justified, or where human spaces can seem more congested with pearls and tchotchkes than can be counted, and/or organized fractally (Carroll was much affected by the "fairyland" Great Exhibition of 1851). Pseudonym of UK photographer, mathematician and author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), whose famous children's stories, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ( 1865) and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There ( 1871) – an early example of the novel (sf or otherwise) structured around the moves of a game of Chess – have had a profound impact on a wide range of writers, over and above the numerous Parodies, often dealing with Politics, that the Innocent-in-Wonderland topos very easily inspires. ![]()
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