By Ben H. Winters

Feel and Sensibility and Sea Monsters co-author Ben H. Winters is again with an all-new collaborator, mythical Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, and the result's Android Karenina an more advantageous version of the vintage love tale set in a dystopian international of robots, cyborgs, and interstellar area travel.

As within the unique novel, our tale follows relationships: the tragic adulterous romance of Anna Karenina and count number Alexei Vronsky, and the even more hopeful marriage of Konstantin Levin and Kitty Shcherbatskaya.These 4, craving for real love, dwell in a steampunk-inspired nineteenth century of mechanical butlers, extraterrestrial-worshiping cults, and airborne debutante balls. Their passions on my own will be adequate to eat them-but whilst a mystery cabal of radical clinical revolutionaries launches an assault on Russian excessive society's high-tech way of life, our heroes needs to struggle again with all their braveness, all their contraptions, and all of the energy of a swish new cyborg version like not anything the area has ever seen."

full of an analogous mix of romance, drama, and delusion that made the 1st Quirk Classics manhattan instances top dealers, Android Karenina brings this celebrated sequence into the fascinating international of technology fiction.

By Jason Heller

HE'S BACK.
AND he is the largest factor IN POLITICS.

He is the ideal presidential candidate. Conservatives love his hard-hitting Republican résumé. Liberals love his peaceable, innovative practicality. The media can’t get sufficient of his larger-than-life character. And all of the American humans love that he’s a good, hard-working guy who tells it love it is.

There’s only one challenge. he's William Howard Taft . . . and he was once already president 100 years in the past. So what in the world is he doing alive and good and contemplating a working mate in 2012? 

A so much notable satire, Jason Heller’s debut novel follows the unusual new lifetime of a presidential Rip Van Winkle: a guy who by no means even sought after the White condo within the first position, but reveals himself hurtling towards it as soon as more—this time, in the course of the media-fueled insanity of 21st-century America.

By Evelio Rosero, Anne McLean, Anna Milsom

Author note: Translated by way of Anna Milsom and Anne McLean
Publish yr note: First released in 2011
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With a skilfully created, idiosyncratic narrator in Tancredo, and peopled with carnivalesque characters, reliable places of work is a fantastically poetic, compact and bright satire at the hypocrisy of the Catholic Church.

Tancredo, a tender hunchback, observes and participates within the goings-on on the church within which he lives below the care of pop Almida. additionally in place of abode are the sexton Celeste Machado, his goddaughter Sabina Cruz, and 3 widows recognized jointly because the Lilias, who do the cooking and cleansing and supply charity food for the neighborhood bad and needy.

One Thursday, Father Almida and the sexton need to rush off to satisfy the parish's crucial benefactor, Don Justiniano. it will likely be the 1st time Father Almida has now not given mass for 40 years. finally they discover a stand-in in, Father Matamoros, a drunkard with a stunning voice whose sung mass is spellbinding to all. The Lilias arrange a luxurious meal for Father Matamoros, who persuades them to drink with him. Over the process the lengthy evening the ladies and Tancredo lose their inhibitions and confess their very own sins and tales to this unusual priest, in addition to these of others.

By Patrick Hamilton

Set in a suburban-London boarding-house in 1911, this can be a extraordinary love tale from the writer of "The apartment of Solitude" and "Hangover Square".

By Terry Southern

By Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq

Leg over Leg recounts the lifestyles, from delivery to center age, of “the Fariyaq,” adjust ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a pivotal determine within the highbrow and literary background of the trendy Arab international. The continuously edifying and sometimes hilarious adventures of the Fariyaq, as he strikes from his local Lebanon to Egypt, Malta, Tunis, England, and France, give you the writer with grist for wide-ranging discussions of the highbrow and social problems with his time, together with the lack of know-how and corruption of the Lebanese non secular and secular institutions, freedom of sense of right and wrong, women’s rights, sexual relationships among women and men, the manners and customs of Europeans and center Easterners, and the diversities among modern eu and Arabic literatures, all of the whereas celebrating the genius and wonder of the classical Arabic language.

Volumes 3 and 4 see the peripatetic Fariyaq fall in love and convert to Catholicism for 24 hours so as to marry. even if the narrative revolves round a sequence of debates over the character of male-female relationships, possibilities additionally come up for disquisitions at the actual and ethical value of such diversified subject matters because the buttocks, the unreliability of virginity assessments, and the human ability for self-delusion. long remains in England and France permit for animadversions at the desk manners and sexual aberrations in their electorate, however the dialogue, even if it contain dance-halls, excitement gardens, or poetry, mainly finally ends up returning to gender relations.

Akin to Sterne and Rabelais in his satirical outlook and technical inventiveness, al-Shidyaq produced in Leg Over Leg a piece that's targeted and unclassifiable. It used to be first and foremost largely condemned for its assaults on authority, its non secular skepticism, and its “obscenity,” and later versions have been frequently abridged. this is often the 1st entire English translation of this groundbreaking paintings.

By Leonard Wibberley

The Mouse at the moon is a superbly humorous sequel to the"Mouse that Roared." The Duchy of Grand Fenwick, the world'ssmallest kingdom, whose military of 20 longbow males defeated the us in "The Mouse that Roared" is again back. The time is through the area race within the Sixties, and the american citizens and the Soviets are racing to say the moon. each side are vying for virtue either at the technical and propaganda front.
While such nice occasions are afoot somewhere else one needs to pity terrible count number of Mountjoy, a guy who aspires to greatness yet because the major Minister of the Duchy basically will get to accommodate trivial concerns. He has to rearrange to have the potholes in Fenwicks unmarried highway repaired, or to pay for the restringing of the bows and the acquisition of latest arrows for the international locations tiny military. He goals of superhighways and sleek amenities and budgets within the billions for Grand Fenwick, yet as a substitute is caught facing 2 kilos and 10 shillings to buy a few new arrows.

One day the Duchy's cherished princess Glorina makes a decision she desires a sable coat, which bills significantly greater than the Duchy's complete annual price range. This request mixed with huge diplomatic maneuver by means of Lord Mountjoy and diplomatic posturing by means of the USA and the Soviet Union begins a series of hilarious occasions that catapult the Duchy into the vanguard of the gap race. the USA and the USSR are attempting to get sooner than each other in an army area race, provided that Grand Fenwick can beat them either will cooperation be triumphant in area.

During this “spellbinding” (The Sunday occasions) award-winning myth, the great empire of Albion is governed by means of the attractive and forlorn queen, Gloriana who needs to conflict opposed to a nefarious scoundrel, Captain Quire, and a court docket soured via debauchery along with her wits.

First released in 1978, Gloriana is the award-winning tale set within the exchange English nation of Albion that reimagines Queen Elizabeth’s reign.

Bawdy, merciless, and extraordinary, Gloriana has been provided the realm myth Award and the toilet W. Campbell Memorial Award for most sensible technological know-how Fiction, and is usually pointed out as one of many nice works of speculative fiction and delusion alongside the traces of J.G. Ballard, Thomas Pynchon, and Philip ok. Dick.

By Stephen Mulrine, Venedikt Erofeev