Sister Alice (Tor Books, ISBN 0-7653-0225-X) is a science fiction novel by author Robert Reed, first published in 2003.
The five sections of the novel originally appeared in a different form in Asimov's Science Fiction:
- "Sister Alice" November 1993
- "Brother Perfect" September 1995
- "Mother Death" January 1998
- "Baby’s Fire" July 1999
- "Father to the Man" September 2000
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