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GalleyCat reviews Android Karenina

by Danielle
Fiction / June 09, 2010

...When I began reading Ben H. Winters' mash-up novel, Android Karenina, my hopes were not high for a quick, light or funny read. Oddly enough, it was all three. Mash-ups are the latest thing in the literary world, mixing classics with new world monsters and demons. It's not really all that new; the music world has been doing it for ages. Mad Magazine used to rewrite the comics--Al Capp writing Brenda Starr, for instance.

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...
~ Louise Leetch

 

More of GalleyCat's review here

Other books in the Quirk Classic series include:

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES

SENSE AND SENSIBILTY AND SEA MONSTERS

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES: DAWN OF THE DREADFULS

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Robots Need Love, Too

by Siobhan
June 09, 2010

Android Karenina, the latest Quirk Classics title, was released yesterday, and I can't think of a better song to celebrate this steampunk saga than "Robots" by awesome Vancouverite Dan Mangan. They share the universal themes of love, rivalry, robots...

 

Robots need love too
They want to be loved by you
They want to be loved by you
They want to be loved by you

 

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Better, Stronger, Faster

by Dan
Fiction + Humour / June 08, 2010

The latest Quirk Classic, Android Karenina  by Leo Tolstoy and Ben Winters, is released today, and as with Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters and PPZ: Dawn of the Dreadfuls, Quirk has released a fantastic teaser trailer for the book:

Let us know what you think! 

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls press kit prep!

by Danielle
Fiction / March 10, 2010

I thought it might be fun to blog about how I whipped up the press kit for PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES: DAWN OF THE DREADFULS. I came up with the idea of using a Katana Sword on the cover because it seems that this is one of Elizabeth's weapons of choice, and quite frankly was racking my brain on what to do. I used watercolor crayons to color the cover and with help from my very nice co-workers 41 kits were made for the media. I took the original and color copied it. Then wrapped the book in red paper, covered it with the katana cover then finished off with a red ribbon. Took a while but here is what came of it!! Phew!! All done, till the next one!

 

Other books in the Quirk Classic series:

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Android Karenina

Press kit to come... (and book to be released June)

 

 

 

 

 

 

And if you are a media contact who for some reason didn't get a a copy, please cotact me and I'll send one off. Please note I just sent these March 10.

~Danielle

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New title in the Quirk Classic Series: ANDROID KARENINA

by Danielle
February 19, 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.

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. These characters live in a steampunk-inspired world of robotic butlers, clumsy automatons, and rudimentary mechanical devices. But 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—and a sleek new model of ultra-human cyborgs like nothing the world has ever seen.

Filled with the same blend of romance, drama, and fantasy 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.

LEO TOLSTOY wrote two of the greatest novels in world literature: War and Peace and Anna Karenina. BEN H. WINTERS is coauthor of the New York Times Best Seller Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, which was hailed by The Onion A.V. Club as a “sheer delight” and by Library Journal as “strangely entertaining, like a Weird Al version of an opera aria.” Mr. Winters lives in Brooklyn.

The Critics Love Ben H. Winters’s Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters!

“The effect is strangely entertaining, like a Weird Al version of an opera aria, and Eugene Smith’s amusing illustrations add an extra touch of bizarre hilarity.”—Library Journal

“Quirk commissioned Ben H. Winters to punch up Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility with man-eating beasts from the briny deep. And once again, to the consternation of purists everywhere, the result is sheer delight.”—The Onion A.V. Club

“It’s a monsterpiece.”—Real Simple

“While preserving the clever dialogue and nuanced love story that drive Sense and Sensibility, Winters skillfully overlays the horror elements, producing another bizarre hybrid that will appeal to the same cult Austen audience as Zombies.”—Booklist

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Other books in the Quirk Classic Series

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sense and Sensibilty and Sea Monsters

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls

 

 

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2 new upcoming titles in the Quirk Classic Series

by Danielle
Contests + Fiction / January 20, 2010

Yep there are two more coming your way.

In 2009, readers gobbled up the Globe and Mail's and international best seller PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES faster than zombies eat brains. Yet, in the midst of their ravenous reading, audiences began asking questions: Where did the zombies come from? How did Elizabeth Bennet develop such quality martial-arts skills? Thus, a prequel! PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES: DAWN OF THE DREADFULS, by Steve Hockensmith, is an all-new work of fiction inspired by Jane Austen’s beloved characters that gives readers the answers they’ve been looking for—and more.

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY AND SEA MONSTERS coauthor Ben H. Winters is back with an all-new collaborator, legendary Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, and the result is ANDROID KARENINA (due in stores July)—an enhanced edition of the classic love story, now set in a dystopian world of robots, cyborgs, and interstellar space travel.

The other two in the series, available at your local bookstore and online:

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY AND SEA MONSTERS

WIN A SIGNED COPY OF SENSE AND SENSIBILITY AND SEA MONSTERS!

Let us know what you think of the series. Comments are aways welcome!! Winner will be drawn at random. Good luck!

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