MASHUP NEWS: Quirk Books' cyborg-tastic Android Karenina debuts today

Quirk is at it again, and this one seems to have flown under the radar for a minute: The local publisher's latest in a series of classic-novels-with-a-monsterrific-twist, Leo Tolstoy and Ben H. Winters' Android Karenina takes classic Tolstoy and amps it up a notch — via robots, of course. Here's the synopsis from Quirk's quirkclassics.com: As in the original novel, our story follows two relationships: the tragic adulterous romance of Anna Karenina and Count Alexei Vronsky, and the much more 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 cabal 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 power of a sleek new cyborg model like nothing the world has ever seen. Um, awesome. Check out the trailer below, and enjoy your summer reading.

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MASHUP NEWS: Quirk Books' cyborg-tastic Android Karenina debuts today

POSTED: Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 6:30 PM

Quirk is at it again, and this one seems to have flown under the radar for a minute: The local publisher's latest in a series of classic-novels-with-a-monsterrific-twist, Leo Tolstoy and Ben H. Winters' Android Karenina takes classic Tolstoy and amps it up a notch — via robots, of course. Here's the synopsis from Quirk's quirkclassics.com:

As in the original novel, our story follows two relationships: the tragic adulterous romance of Anna Karenina and Count Alexei Vronsky, and the much more 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 cabal 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 power of a sleek new cyborg model like nothing the world has ever seen.

Um, awesome. Check out the trailer below, and enjoy your summer reading.

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