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But yeah, I understand a lot of your concerns/opinions. When I said 'a lot' at the start I may have been exaggerating haha
Anyway, I'll have to brainstorm that idea a bit, I was going to try and incorporate all her short stories from that collection into one novel as a tribute to her work. She used a lot of Alice in Wonderland references and ideas in the collection.
IANAL, but you're not going to be legally able to do that without written permission from her estate and her publisher.
If you want to write a book that incorporates classic fairy tales and fantasy, then write your own. Don't shoplift bits and pieces from someone else's hard work.
Write a B&tB-type story set on Mars, with androids. Or an Alice in Wonderland-type story where a 40s Big Band singer steps through a stage door onto an early 80s punk stage.
Build your own worlds. Because you're not going to get approval to plagiarize from a board full of writers. We are assuming nothing other than what you have said in your own posts in this thread.