While Weir’s use of the characters differs greatly from Moore and Gebbie’s erotica, no-one in almost eighty years before had come up with the idea of uniting those three girls, and refusing to acknowledge the similarity anywhere takes some brass neck. It’s difficult to believe that even if Weir hadn’t known this before, no-one pointed it out while he worked on Cheshire Crossing as a web strip for several years. Apparently entirely coincidentally, that was the year Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie published books of Lost Girls featuring those characters, which they’d been serialising since 1991. In his introduction Andy Weir recalls the gestation of Cheshire Crossing being his wondering about what happened to Alice from Alice in Wonderland, Dorothy from the Oz novels, and Wendy from Peter Pan after their published adventures.
Alice Liddell, Wendy Darling and Dorothy Gale are three young teenagers who meet in a British sanatorium in 1904, each believed to be delusional after telling their parents about trips to other, magical, worlds.
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