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Illustrator Eugene Smith Language English Media type Print, (paperback) Genres Parody, Steampunk | 3.5/5 Goodreads Country United States Publication date June 8, 2010 Originally published 8 June 2010 Page count 538 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publisher Quirk Books, Philadelphia Preceded by Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters Followed by Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls Similar Works by Ben Winters, Leo Tolstoy books, Mashup books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Android Karenina is a 2010 parody novel written by Ben H. Winters and based on Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. The novel is a mashup, adding steampunk elements to the Russian 19th-century environment of Anna Karenina, a book first published in 1877.
The book has the same main couples as Tolstoy's – Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky, and Kitty Shcherbatskaya and Konstantin Levin. Their society is high-tech, with servant-robots performing tasks all the way from pest control to education of children; the robots love their humans and are governed by the Iron Laws of Robot Behavior. Both Anna's husband and a terrorist group of scientists are opposed to widespread ownership of robots. The book also has time travel, space travel, aliens, and monsters.
Winters previously wrote Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters (2009), another parody novel.