Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Arrrgggghhhhh!

Tolstoy will do the robot in the next Quirk Classic | EW.com: "Quirk Books, the folks who brought you Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, its prequel, and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, have moved on from bloodying the frock of Jane Austen and set their sights on a new author: Leo Tolstoy. No, the company’s fourth augmented classic isn’t going to be War and Pieces of Brain, nor will it be The Undeath of Ivan Ilyich.

It’s Android Karenina, which will transpose the tale of Anna Karenina to a steampunk-inspired alternate 19th-century world of cyborgs, robot butlers, and space travel. S&S&S scribe Ben H. Winters will be helping to mechanize the original text, and the new quirkified version (the cover, at left, has yet to be designed) is set for release in bookstores this June."

3 comments:

Deb said...

MAKE. IT. STOP. NOW.

Richard Robinson said...

What I can't figure out is who buys this stuff. Someone must be, or they wouldn't keep doing them.

George said...

This desecration of the classics needs to cease.