Fans of the ‘zombie mash up’ hit Pride and Prejudice and Zombies will be thrilled to hear that Quirk Books will be publishing their second ‘adapted classic’ on September 15th, titled Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.
Billed as a tale of ROMANCE, HEARTBREAK and TENTACLES, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters keeps the Austen theme, but takes a leap away from battling the zombie horde, throwing Elinor and Marianne Dashwood and the rest of Sense and Sensibility ‘crew’, into the ‘deep blue’, where a whole host of marine monsters lie in wait, ready to unleash a barrage of salty combat.
In this follow-up adapted by Brooklyn writer Ben H. Winters, sea creatures as the monster theme is a direction which fans of the first novel perhaps weren’t expecting. Quirk Editorial Director Jason Rekulak explains the choice for this latest title:
A couple of publishers are crashing Jane Austen vampire novels that will no doubt capitalise on the success of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and there were certainly plenty of people who urged me to do the same. But I think Pride and Prejudice and Zombies fans are counting on us to deliver something original, and I don’t think they will be disappointed
I’m sure fans won’t be disappointed either, and to whet their appetite Quirk have produced an unmissable book trailer for Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, which can be viewed either on the Quirk Classics website, or on the Irreference YouTube channel.
So publication day for Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters is September 15th (both in the UK and the US), the same day that Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol enjoys its release. So it looks like giant lobsters and octopi won’t be the only thing that the Dashwood’s will be battling on that day. It’s inevitable who’s going to come out on top, but I know which one of the two is going to be the most fun and exciting to read.
Quirk Books | 15th September 2009 | £8.99 | PAPERBACK | 344 PP | ISBN 9781594744426
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Huh. I guess after “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” I shouldn’t be too surprised… but I am. I wonder when they’ll try to steer away from the Austen genre and with what. I’d love, for instance, to see “War and Peace and Ninjas”. I’ll just have to wait, I suppose…
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Emmm..you know I quite like the idea of ‘War and Peace and Ninjas’, but if someone did do that I’d probably sit in a corner and weep; not least because someone had defiled ‘my’ precious Tolstoy
Of Mice And Men And Medusa
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Sorry Stewart, I’m not even going to encourage you
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How about Dracula and Vampires? Oh I forgot, someone already did that…
Aw!
Next up, The Master And Margarita And Mummies, maybe.
Ha! A challenge. The Woman in White with Werewolves
Oooh, I have the first book (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) but haven’t started it yet. (Too many books, too little time.) On the PPZ Facebook page, folks have come up with some great ideas for followups: Sons and Lovers and Aliens … Little Women and Big Foot …
The possibilities are endless.
Seems I might have to move this book up to the top of my reading pile….
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Yep and if I could just stop you there Linda. There’ll be none of this endless drone of possible ‘mash up’ titles on RobAroundBooks thank you very much
Rats, and to think I was just getting started!
PPZ is indeed next up on my list now…. Honest.
(Bleak House of Horrors? Great Expectations of Death? Gore With the Wind?)
Okay, I’ll stop now.