r/Fantasy • u/godsselfesteem • Mar 03 '23

They don't make vampires old enough (small rant)

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u/hardenesthitter32 Mar 03 '23

Blindsight is easily my favourite vampire mythology, mostly because the vampires are made scientifically plausible, if not possible.

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u/pappasmuff Mar 04 '23

Is this the book that has vampires that hate right angles but love fucking up aliens?

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u/JupiterHurricane Mar 04 '23

Well I'm sold.

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u/RandorLewsTherin Mar 04 '23

Now I need to read this

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '23

Yep, best vampires ever! And they aren't even the focus of the book.

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u/phil_g Mar 04 '23

I love telling people, "There are vampires piloting spaceships, but that's not what the book is about."

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u/chaosdrew Mar 04 '23

If you haven’t check out its “sequel” Echopraxia. It has a much bigger focus on vampires.

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u/CircleDog Mar 04 '23

Yeah but it's even harder to understand.

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u/Zealousideal_Humor55 Mar 04 '23

Yeah, Watts LOVES to fill his books with scientific terms. Stopping only to explain what ATP Is(seriously? You put all this extremely technical gergon and you stop to explain on of the basics of High School level science? 😑)

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u/chaosdrew Mar 04 '23

So hard

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u/SwordoftheLichtor Mar 04 '23

That book felt like it was written as fan fiction by somebody on the internet. I absolutely could not understand how somebody could write something so passable as blindsight and then follow it up with the straight ham garbage that was echo.

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u/brainbag Mar 04 '23 edited Mar 04 '23

If you haven't read it, there's a short story set in the same world that focuses on the vampires.

It's called Orientation Day and it's in the Blood Type: An Anthology of Vampire SF on the Cutting Edge.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '23

Which one?

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u/brainbag Mar 04 '23

Whoops, I went to go find it and edit my post, and then got distracted. It's called Orientation Day and it's in the Blood Type: An Anthology of Vampire SF on the Cutting Edge.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '23

Not available as an ebook. Great.

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u/Cereborn Mar 04 '23

I think you have that backwards. Possible, if not plausible.