Never let a good thing go before you’ve beaten it to death (and possibly resurrection). Quirk Books, who brought us Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Ben H. Winters and Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibilities and Sea Monsters, announces their newest posthumous collaborational mash-up: Android Karenina by Leo Tolstoy and Ben H. Winters (expected to be published this June).
Android Karenina will be “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.”
Don’t say we didn’t warn you.
Related articles previously published on SFScope:
Quirk launches mash-up website for Quirk Classics (13 November 2009)
Del Rey to graphically adapt Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (28 July 2009)