Noon presents "Automatic Alice" as a sequel to two famous books by Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland" and "Alice Through the Looking Glass." This time, Alice falls from the reign of Queen Victoria to the futuristic Manchester of the future, inhabited by Executive Reptiles, people sick with "nevmonia" and an invisible cat named Quark. It falls at the cost of irrepressible curiosity, setting off after an ugly parrot named Kozoda throughout history. And now Alice wants to return to her native past, in the year 1820, to her grandmother Ermintrude, put the fugitive in a cage, and find out what an ellipsis is.