Alicia in Blunderland

by P. Schuyler Miller

Lewis Carroll's delightful fantasies about Alice in Wonderland are more than whimsy — they are social satires enjoyed especially by adults. Few "Alice" admirers know that Carroll had a score of imitators who utilized their own Carrollian creations for a satirical look at other times and places. Inevitably there had to be a science fiction Alice. It was published in the early 1930's as a serial in the fabled Science Fiction Digest, the first important printed science fiction fan magazine. The byline, "Nihil," concealed the young writer, P. Schuyler Miller. After half a century some of...

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