History Literature / AliceGirlFromTheFuture

* ''A Million Adventures'' (1976)

* UniquenessDecay: In ''One Hundred Years Ahead'', time travel, let alone messing with the past, is explicitly forbidden for anyone who doesn’t work at the Institute of Time and isn't qualified. The whole second part with several characters going to the 20th century is only possible because 1) the institute is closed and empty because of a holiday 2) Rat and Jolly U melt its wall with a blaster, and that's how they (and Kolya, and Alice) can get inside. Several books later, time travel is almost as mundane as space travel, and changing the past goes from "forbidden", to "tolerated through gritted teeth if it has already happened", to "approved if it's for the better".
** In early books, intergalactic travels are considered pretty dangerous & epic journeys, which only some heroes dared to attempt. In later books, they are pretty much mundane. Justified, because the ''Main/PlotDevice'' in ''The Voyage of Alice'' is exactly the fuel that make fast intergalactic travels possible.

* ''The Voyage of Alice'' (1974) also known as ''Animation/TheMysteryOfTheThirdPlanet'', ''A Girl From Earth'', or ''Alice and the Three Captains''

** Subverted in ''The Captives of An Asteroid''; while alien robots initially looks like that, they actually are perfectly sane machines, restored to the desperate measures to maintain their degrading asteroid generation ship and descendants of its crew – because their alien creators, due to over-reliance on said robots, slowly degraded to near-brainless state after centuries of idleness.

* LighterAndSofter: Some darker stories have been rewritten for younger readers. For example, ''The Sorcerer and the Snow Maiden'' is a rewrite of ''There Are No Ghosts'' (which some consider to be the darkest book of the franchise) and ''The Pirate Queen on the Planet of Fairytales'' is based on the fourth part of ''A Million Adventures''.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: ''TheCityWithoutMemory'' is built around that.
* LilliputianWarriors: quite a lot in ''The War Against Lilliputian'' (albeit all miget-sized in this book are actually normal human, shrunk to sentimeter-size by technological or other means).

* ''The Adventures of Alice'' (1974) also known as ''Animation/TheMysteryOfTheThirdPlanet'' or ''Alice and the Three Captains''

!! Books in the series (in publication order; internal chronology are different and quite oftenly inconsistent):

** Special point for "The Kindness Ray", when villain used the abovementioned ray to grow a monster predator plant to kill the prisoners. He apparently never realised, that under the influence of said ray, his monster simply could not harm anyone.

* TheCavalry: Alice sometimes is rescued by it, though mostly she is on her own.

* FriendlyScheming: Alice's grandmother Lucretia, being a {{Trickster}} and a sorceress, really loves to do this.

* UsedFuture: ''TheCityWithoutMemory''.
* WeHaveReserves: played straight in the finale of "Gai-Do", when the native inhabitaints of 5-4 planet pinned the alien dictator (who enslaved, betrayed and murdered a lot of their kind) against the lethal geyzer lake. The dictator, armed with blaster, killed hundreds of natives, but they keep coming. And then he run out of ammo.

* AdultsAreUseless: Often Alice solves a problem the adults were repeatedly failing to solve (such as the mystery of the Empty Planet in ''A Girl From Earth'').

** Played straight in ''The Rusty General's Island''; the squad of old XX-century military robots, accidentally activated by researchers, mindlessly follow the preset aggressive program - despite being at least partially sentient. Ironically, it is revealed, that the war, for which those robots were prepared, never actually started, and they were just forgotten in old storage facility.

* [[AliensSpeakingEnglish Aliens Speaking Russian]]: Subverted. Many aliens (Rrrr, Gromozeka, Rat etc.) are fluent in it, however, TranslationConvention is commonly applied: the usual lingua franca in space is Cosmolingua, and there are stories set on other planets where mostly the planets' native languages are used (such as ''Alice’s Birthday'', ''Literature/TheCityWithoutMemory'' etc.).

* EverythingsBetterWithCows: Skleess, the adorable flying cow of Sheshineru, is brought to Cosmozo in ''A Girl From Earth'' and is a recurring ComicRelief ever since.

* GoneHorriblyRight: the [[spoiler: memory erasure field]] from ''TheCityWithoutMemory''.

!Books in the series (in publication order; internal chronology are different and quite oftenly inconsistent):

* ''The War Against Lilliputeans'' (1992)

!Tropes:

* AdultsAreUseless: Often Alice solves a problem the adults were repeatedly failing to solve.
** Subverted in some installments where Alice fails, and adults (like regular police) save the day.

** Played straight in "The Rusty General's Island"; the squad of old XX-century military robots, accidentally activated by researchers, mindlessly follow the preset aggressive program - despite being at least partially sentient. Ironically, it is revealed, that the war, for which those robots were prepared, never actually started, and they were just forgotten in old storage facility.
** Subverted in "Captives of asteroid"; while alien robots initially looks like that, they actually are perfectly sane machines, restored to the desperate measures to maintain their degrading asteroid generation ship and descendants of its crew - because their alien creators, due to over-reliance on said robots, slowly degraded to near-brainless state after centuries of idleness.

* [[AliensSpeakingEnglish Aliens Speaking Russian]]

* AncientAstronauts: ''TheEndOfAtlantis'' features a lost colony under the Pacific Ocean. Another book has Alice finding a crashed starship underwater, and, apparently, another from four million years ago was found in a desert.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Space pirates invasion on planet Brastak; which inhabitants generally are the same size (and roughly the same shape) as Earth house kitten.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: GentleGiant Gromozeka may not be so gentle if his friends are in danger...
* BizarreAlienBiology: Now, where to start..?
* BiggerIsBetter: Basically averted in "Million of Adventures"; one of protagonist flatly stated, that space pirates invasion on the planet of Brastak - whose inhabitants are kitten-sized - would fail mizerably if not for a bunch of collaboratos and traitors. After all, it is pretty hard for human-sized space pirates to fight urban warfare, if they barely could move in enemy city and could not enter most of the buildings, tunnels & shelters...

* BoundAndGagged: Happens from time to time.

* ChangedMyJumper: A boy from 1976 ends up in 2082 - and simply tells the people he's dressed up for a masquerade ball. The people buy it.
* ChildSoldiers: in ''Secret of the Black Stone'', Alice, along with other children is drafted as one against her will.

* CommonTongue: the Cosmolingua.

* TheDungAges: Pashka Gerasimov is a hopeless romantic. One of the books is about him requesting a trip into the MiddleAges, hoping for YeGoodeOldeDays...

* ExplosiveBreeder: The space pirates attempted to destroy the atmosphere of an entire planet by unleashing air eating worms fitting the trope. Also, see AIIsACrapshoot.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: In one of the stories, Alice finds an alien in a crashed ship underwater. He attempts to steal her body to take over the Earth. However, he dismissed her two dolphin companions as slaves rather than friends (a concept the alien considered to be a pathetic illusion ''for'' slaves), and was caught completely off-guard, when they brought help.
* EverythingsBetterWithCows: Skleess the Flying Cow!
* FantasticDrug: ''The Adventures of Alice'' features a planet where a drug was invented allowing time travel. At first, people were going to the future to check what will happen, but then grew afraid of it and all started traveling back to the best moments of their life. Within a few years, the entire planet was a slum.

* FreeRangeChildren: Alice and her friends are allowed to wander around unsupervised from the age of seven. By the time she is ten, she already has traveled to other planets (sometimes with no adults or insufficient oversight) and had a huge number of life-threatening situations.

* FriendlyScheming: Alice's grandmother Lukerya, being a {{Trickster}} and a sorceress, really loves to do this.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler: Garold]] from ''The Underground Boat''.
* FutureImperfect: In "Alice's Birthday", after Alice fixes the past, she finds out her actions are remembered only as an eccentric action of an enthusiastic woman (back then, it was mistaken for an assassination attempt).

* ''The City Without Memory'' (1988)

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Space pirates invasion on planet Brastak; which inhabitants generally are the same size (and roughly the same size as Earth house kitten.

* ''One Hundred Years from Now'' (1978) also known as ''GuestFromTheFuture'' or ''Alice in the Past''

* HeroicSacrifice: Werther in ''GuestFromTheFuture''. Blue Beard in ''Draconosaurus''.

!Books in the series:

* BiggerAreBetter: Basically averted in "Million of Adventures"; one of protagonist flatly stated, that space pirates invasion on the planet of Brastak - whose inhabitants are kitten-sized - would fail mizerably if not for a bunch of collaboratos and traitors. After all, it is pretty hard for human-sized space pirates to fight urban warfare, if they barely could move in enemy city and could not enter most of the buildings, tunnels & shelters...

* AttackOfThe50-FootWhatever: Space pirates invasion on planet Brastak; which inhabitants generally are the same size (and roughly the same size as Earth house kitten.

* KillAndReplace: One of the books features an adopted son of an emperor who learned he won't inherit the crown. He assassinated him, and forced a law that everyone is to wear [[CrapsaccharineWorld smiling]] masks.