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 Tolsoy, the author of War and Peace, has been called the most brilliant master of realistic fiction in all literary history. He lived in Russia. Ben H. Winters collaborated with Jane Austen on the New York Times best seller Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. He lives in Brooklyn.
“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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