Android Karenina [SEP] based on
Android Karenina
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
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