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Android Karenina (Quirk Classics Book 2) by Tolstoy, Leo Nikolaevic; Winters, Ben is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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From Publishers Weekly The next installment in Quirk's much-heralded sci-fi/classics mashup series, this steampunk take on Anna Karenina discards tsarist Russia for an alternate reality where a miracle metal, gronzium, has fueled the development of a thriving robot culture. Carriages and candlesticks persist, but everything is mechanized, including the servants: at the peak of the robot hierarchy are the near-sentient "Class IIIs," humanoid robots who aid and comfort their upper-class owners. These futuristic additions are more than background filler, though; Winters incorporates an entire action-packed sci-fi sub-plot, with terrorist attacks from a group of renegade scientists, an alien invasion, and the growing menace of a certain scorned cyborg husband. The sci-fi elements are carefully accomplished, sometimes brilliantly extrapolated from the original. The Class IIIs, for example, also act as telling externalizations of their masters: cold, duty-bound Karenin becomes half-robot and childish Kitty gets a pink, mechanized ballerina companion. Tolstoy's text is more than strong enough to stand up to this sort of treatment, its force attenuated just enough to allow Winters (Sense

Who reads Android Karenina (Quirk Classics Book 2)?

Author

Tolstoy, Leo Nikolaevic; Winters, Ben

Publisher

Quirk Books ; Publishers Group UK [distributor

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781594744600

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Science Fiction, Literary Fiction

Updated

2026-03-24