Alice in Wonder-World / Alice in Wonder-World (ePub)

Time travel and utter nonsense.

Based on "Alice in Wonderland"

"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister in their spaceship, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the data-pad her sister was playing a game, but the game had no relatable characters or puzzles in it, "and what is the use of a game," thought Alice "without exciting characters or puzzles?"

So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the long space travel made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of shooting actual space rocks to smithereens would be worth the trouble of getting up and settling behind the blaster, when suddenly a bird-looking spaceship passed close by them, but her sister didn't even notice.

There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to see the spaceship change its shape, stretching and squeezing as it got larger and larger and then small again (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the spaceship began to quiver like a mirage and flicker like a star, Alice started to her feet and head for one of the escape pods, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a mirage like this one in space, or a spaceship flicker like a star, and burning with curiosity, she jumped into an escape pod and went after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large black-hole beyond the mirage.

In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to return to her ship."