White Rabbit
Mad Hatter
Red Queen
White King
etc
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Thus, Jerry Pournelle and SM Stirling do not need to explain when they tell us that:
"A small girl in antique dress slept in an armchair before a mirror; a white-haired figure with a pipe and smoking jacket was seated beside her, only the figure was an anthropomorphic rabbit..."
-"The Asteroid Queen," Chapter VII, p. 130.
- or when:
"The rabbit touched the young girl on the shoulder; she stretched, yawned, and stepped through a large and ornately framed mirror on the study wall, vanishing without trace."
-op. cit, p. 131.
Thus, both Alice books are referenced.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
It's good Pournelle and Stirling made classical allusions to the ALICE books in THE ASTEROID QUEEN. And I like how Anderson also had Flandry referring to ALICE in Chapter X of A CIRCUS OF HELLS: "The moment I woke the White King up, the world he'd been dreaming of came to an end." His metaphor went over her head, so he merely continued..."
Ad astra! Sean
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