Tag: Quirk Books

FIVE QUESTIONS: BEN H. WINTERS Ben H. Winters shares the author credit on his new book with literary lion Leo Tolstoy, who died 100 years ago this November. The book is called “Android Karenina“ and, yes, that’s right, it reimagines the 19th-century masterpiece “Anna Karenina” as a sci-fi adventure. The book is from Quirk Classics, the same publishing house that gleefully pounced on public domain classics to give the world “Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters” and “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.” Hero Complex contributor Noelene Clark caught up with Winters to talk about the tricky task of adding robot gears to a classic that William Faulkner called the best novel ever written. NC: “Anna Karenina” is an epic love story. It’s universally regarded as an essential work of literature. You’ve added a robot uprising. What do you think Tolstoy would say about your ...