

Android Karenina
Author: Ben H. Winters
Narrator: Susan Duerden
Unabridged: 19 hr 12 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 06/08/2010
Categories: Fiction, Classic, Science Fiction, Humorous
Author: Ben H. Winters
Narrator: Susan Duerden
Unabridged: 19 hr 12 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 06/08/2010
Categories: Fiction, Classic, Science Fiction, Humorous
Leo Tolstoy wrote two of the greatest novels in world literature: War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Ben H. Winters is coauthor of the New York Times Best Seller Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, which was hailed by The Onion A.V. Club as a “sheer delight” and by Library Journal as “strangely entertaining, like a Weird Al version of an opera aria.” Mr. Winters lives in Brooklyn.
My first thought upon finishing Android Karenina was that, had Tolstoy been aware of robots, androids, moon resorts, and magnetic grav trains, this is the book he'd have written. To my mind, the concept of robotics, with its sense of coldness and hardness and immovable logic, fits in perfectly with......more
I can only imagine how incredibly boring this book must be without the robots and aliens......more
When I agreed to be part of the Android Karenina blogsplosion, I knew it was going to be an interesting experience. I've read the P&P inspired books -- and obviously am familiar with P&P -- so I got the in-jokes and the references, and could compare it to the original. With this, I haven't read An......more