The thing is that Tolstoy’s characters already lived in a “world of robotic butlers, clumsy automatons, and rudimentary mechanical devices”: I decided to be terribly, terribly blasé.
But eventually, after long, hard thought, I settled on my stance. But when these copper-plated machines begin to revolt against their human masters, our characters must fight back using state-of-the-art nineteenth-century technology-and a sleek new model of ultra-human cyborgs like nothing the world has ever seen.Īt first I was daunted by the prospect of forming an opinion on this literary event.
These characters live in a steampunk-inspired world of robotic butlers, clumsy automatons, and rudimentary mechanical devices. As in the original novel, our story follows two relationships: The tragic adulterous love affair of Anna Karenina and Count Alexei Vronsky, and the more hopeful marriage of Nikolai Levin and Princess Kitty Shcherbatskaya.