When Machines And Monsters Meet The Classics

Monday, March 1, 2010

When Machines And Monsters Meet The Classics (NAPSA}—Howdo you improve a classic? Just add robots, cyborgs and interstellar space travel. That’s what Quirk Books and best-selling author m Ben 4H. LC) Winters oe did when they reimagined Leo Tol- stoy’s masterpiece to create “Android Karenina,” a steam- ANDROID KARENINA Beree NENgNIE The pursuit of love punkinspired retelling of “Anna Karenina.” Jason can be tantalizingly Rekulak, terrifying—especially associate when you add a robot publisher uprising. at Quirk Books and editor of the Quirk Classics series, explains: “Everyone remem- bers ‘Anna Karenina’ for the romance and adultery, but Tolstoy’s novel also explored how new technology was changing the landscape of 19th century Russia.” Rekulak asked Ben H. Winters, author of The New York Times best seller and monsterpiece “Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters,” to push that new technology even further. Winters introduced robots and rocket ships to the story and rewrote the love story within the context of a larger-than-life science fiction novel. Quirk Books began the literary mash-up craze in 2009 with The New York Times best-selling “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” by Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen. With more than 1 million copies in print, it) | has been | trans- j lated into 20 lan - guages and optioned to be- DAWN OF THE DREADFULS come a film starring Natalie Portman. Inspired by the original novel, Quirk recently published “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls,” a prequel by award-winning novelist Steve Hockensmith. Already a New York Timesbestseller, this terrifying and hilarious book explains the genesis of the zombie plague in early 19th-century England andtells the story of young Elizabeth Bennett evolving from a naive young teenager into a slayer of the undead. All four books are available wherever books are sold. For more information, visit www.quirkclassics.com.

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