![]() ![]() In the case of Android Karenina, however, Winters’s additions complement the novel. A quick survey of the literary blogosphere reveals that many readers accuse the publisher of abandoning its initial premise and depending too heavily on cheap tricks and absurd plot twists. The reception of the Quirk Books mash-ups suggests that this is in fact what most readers are doing: though many reviewers jumped on board with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies in 2009, subsequent titles have received lukewarm critical attention and sold with less success. Winters, this rehashing of Leo Tolstoy’s classic Anna Karenina takes us to a steampunk version of Russia filled with droids, wondrous transportation systems, colonies on the moon and trips to the orbit of Venus.Īs a devoted reader of Anna Karenina, I’m tempted to attack this android derivation, take the purist’s approach and dismiss the book outright. Its Pride and Prejudice and Zombies sat near the top of the New York Times bestseller list in 2009. Quirk Books, 2010.Īndroid Karenina is yet another mash-up novel from Philadelphia’s Quirk Books, a publisher with a penchant for commingling the literary canon with monster stories. Android Karenina by Leo Tolstoy and Ben H. ![]()
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