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I For One Welcome Our Android Overlords
by Dan
Fiction + Humour + News / January 13, 2010
Yes. You had better believe it.
The good folks at Quirk Books have remixed and remastered another literary classic for your reading pleasure!
This time, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters co-author Ben H. Winters is back with an all-new literary collaborator, legendary Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), and the result is a classic love story set in a dystopian world of robots, cyborgs, and interstellar space travel. Welcome to Android Karenina!
As in the original novel, our story follows two relationships: The tragic adulterous love affair of Anna Karenina and Count Alexei Vronsky, and the more hopeful marriage of Nikolai Levin and Princess Kitty Shcherbatskaya. But this a steampunk-inspired world of robotic butlers, clumsy automatons and rudimentary mechanical devices. And when these copper-plated machines begin to revolt against their human masters, our characters must fight back using state-of-the-art 19th-century technology.
With the same blend of romance, drama and ultraviolence that made the first two Quirk Classics New York Times best sellers, Android Karenina brings this celebrated series into the exciting world of science fiction.
Android Karenina will be published in June 2010.
