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Ben H. Winters, co-author of the New York Times best seller Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, returns with an all-new collaborator, legendary Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. The result is Android Karenina (Quirk Books, $12.95, June 8, 2010)—an enhanced edition of the classic love story, now set in a strange new world of robots, cyborgs, and interstellar space travel. “Everyone remembers Anna Karenina for the romance and adultery, but Tolstoy’s novel also explored how new technology was changing the landscape of 19th century Russia,” explains Quirk Classics series editor Jason Rekulak. “We asked Ben to push that new technology even further, to introduce robots and rocket ships, to retell the love story within the context of a larger-than-life science fiction novel.” As in the original novel, our story follows two relationships: the tragic adulterous romance of Anna Karenina and Count Alexei Vronsky, and the stormy but hopeful marriage of Nikolai Levin and Kitty Shcherbatskaya. These four, yearning for true love, live in a steampunk-inspired 19th century of mechanical butlers, extraterrestrial-worshiping cults, and airborne debutante balls. Their passions alone would be enough to consume them—but when a secret sect of radical scientific revolutionaries launches an attack on Russian high society’s high-tech lifestyle, our heroes must fight back with all their courage, all their gadgets, and all the cunning their robot companions can muster. Featuring fifteen black-and-white illustrations and reader’s discussion questions, Android Karenina is filled with the same blend of romance, drama, and fantasy that has made all of the Quirk Classics 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 co-author of the New York Times best seller Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. Praise for Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters’ 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 A.V. Club “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 “It’s a monsterpiece.”—Real Simple