The novels Blindsight & Echopraxis by Peter Watts have a nice vampire sub-plot... basically his world has vampires which have been revived from the fossil record. They are posited to have gone extinct in recent times, but before then were human's key predator, keeping our populations strongly in check and then having to hibernate for decades to allow the breeding to provide new meat!

He's super interested in brain disorders and spins a good story about the trade offs of a terrible reaction to right angles in exchange for savant like powers of perception.

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ceejayoz 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

He even did a full academic-style presentation about the vampires that's on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEOUaJW05bU

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red75prime 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I can't believe I haven't seen this yet: https://blindsight.space/memories/

	▲	sgt101 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It never occurred to me to see if there was a film! Mind you even more amazing I was on youtube yesterday and a short film showing the first chapter of the brand new book (published really recently) that I was reading popped up. Now I see that there is not only that film (in the DUST series) but also a miniseries someone has made... https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=antimemetics+di...

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vict7 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I have not read Echopraxis yet, but I thoroughly enjoyed Blindsight. Some very thought-provoking concepts in that book.

The idea that vampires needed to take “anti-Euclideans” and the way the ship was constructed to avoid generating right angles were some great details.

	▲	Baeocystin an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Just a heads up, don't go in to Echopraxia expecting it to feel like Blindsight. When I first read it, I was actually pretty disappointed overall, and a few of my friends had similar reactions. Over a couple of years a few re-reads, though, I've come to enjoy it perhaps even more that Blindsight, but in a completely different way. It fills out a lot of the posits opened in the first novel, without coming to specific conclusions, but it gives you a lot to think about.