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QUIRK BOOKS
01 June 2010
"Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters co-author Ben H. Winters is back with an all-new collaborator, legendary Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, and the result is Android Karenina-an enhanced edition of the classic love story set in a dystopian world of robots, cyborgs, and interstellar space travel.

Leo Tolstoy meets robots in this ""creepy, thrilling, and highly enjoyable"" sci-fi mashup of the classic Russian novel Anna Karenina (Library Journal).

"". . . lives up to its promise to make Tolstoy 'awesomer.'""-The Onion AV Club

It's been called the greatest novel ever written. Now, Tolstoy's timeless saga of love and betrayal is transported to an awesomer version of 19th-century Russia. It is a world humming with high-powered groznium engines- where debutantes dance the 3D waltz in midair, mechanical wolves charge into battle alongside brave young soldiers, and robots-miraculous, beloved robots!-are the faithful companions of everyone who's anyone.

Restless to forge her own destiny in this fantastic modern life, the bold noblewoman Anna and her enigmatic Android Karenina abandon a loveless marriage to seize passion with the daring, handsome Count Vronsky. But when their scandalous affair gets mixed up with dangerous futuristic villainy, the ensuing chaos threatens to rip apart their lives, their families, and-just maybe-all of planet Earth."
By:   ,
Illustrated by:   Eugene Smith
Translated by:  
Imprint:   QUIRK BOOKS
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 134mm,  Spine: 36mm
Weight:   502g
ISBN:   9781594744600
ISBN 10:   1594744602
Pages:   541
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for Android Karenina

Literary hybrids of Jane Austen novels and zombie stories? That s so last year. Quirk Books, which released the best-selling novels Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, has seen the future of the mashup novel, and it is Leo Tolstoy and robots. New York Times Anna s nightmare, one of the most famous passages in Anna Karenina, clearly anticipates the steampunk-inspired atmosphere of Android Karenina Tolstoy didn t know about steampunk or cyborgs, but he did know about the nightmarishness of steam power, unruly machines, and the creepy half-human status of the Russian peasant classes. Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed, via The New Yorker Creepy, thrilling, and highly enjoyable! Library Journal Whenever a truly pulpy trend reaches its apotheosis like this, I can't help but wonder if we'll get a new classic out of it. io9 Android Karenina lives up to its promise to make Tolstoy awesomer. The Onion AV Club Winters, a playwright, librettist, and author of Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, connects all of Tolstoy s dots in the cleverly bizarre world he has created and he transforms a Russian novel into a reasonably demented work of science fiction. Galley Cat With Android, Winters has given Tolstoy's beautiful Russian epic a steampunk edge, filling the book with robots, space travel and yes, even a few aliens. Techland Literary hybrids of Jane Austen novels and zombie stories? That's so last year. Quirk Books, which released the best-selling novels Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters , has seen the future of the mashup novel, and it is Leo Tolstoy and robots. -- New York Times Anna's nightmare, one of the most famous passages in Anna Karenina , clearly anticipates the 'steampunk-inspired' atmosphere of Android Karenina ... Tolstoy didn't know about steampunk or cyborgs, but he did know about the nightmarishness of steam power, unruly machines, and the creepy half-human status of the Russian peasant classes. --Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed , via The New Yorker Creepy, thrilling, and highly enjoyable! -- Library Journal Whenever a truly pulpy trend reaches its apotheosis like this, I can't help but wonder if we'll get a new classic out of it. -- io9 Android Karenina lives up to its promise to make Tolstoy 'awesomer.' -- The Onion AV Club Winters, a playwright, librettist, and author of Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters , connects all of Tolstoy's dots in the cleverly bizarre world he has created and he transforms a Russian novel into a reasonably demented work of science fiction. -- Galley Cat With Android , Winters has given Tolstoy's beautiful Russian epic a steampunk edge, filling the book with robots, space travel and yes, even a few aliens. -- Techland


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