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Android Karenina

A thrilling reimagining of a classic love story

Leo Tolstoy author Ben H Winters author Constance Garnett translator Eugene Smith illustrator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Quirk Books

Published:8th Jun '10

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This imaginative retelling merges classic literature with science fiction. Android Karenina explores love and betrayal in a futuristic Russia filled with robots.

In Android Karenina, the classic tale of love and betrayal is reimagined in a thrilling sci-fi setting. The story transports readers to a re-envisioned 19th-century Russia, where the familiar characters navigate a world filled with advanced technology and mechanical wonders. Debutantes glide through the air in 3D waltzes, while mechanical wolves and robots serve as both companions and protectors in this vibrant landscape.

At the heart of Android Karenina is the bold noblewoman Anna, who yearns to escape her stifling marriage. Alongside her enigmatic Android counterpart, she embarks on a passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky. However, their romance becomes entangled with a web of futuristic villainy, threatening not only their lives but also the very fabric of society. As Anna and her android navigate the complexities of love in a world of chaos, the stakes become higher than ever.

Written by Ben H. Winters in collaboration with the legendary Leo Tolstoy, this novel offers a fresh take on a timeless story. With its mix of classic literature and inventive sci-fi elements, Android Karenina invites readers to explore themes of love, freedom, and the consequences of passion in an extraordinary, dystopian universe.

“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

ISBN: 9781594744600

Dimensions: 203mm x 134mm x 36mm

Weight: 502g

512 pages