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Vampire Use In Contemporary Fantasy
BigMama:
Wow! Now that's a new viewpoint. I'm going to have to ponder that--yuk! ;D
fjeastman:
:)
It reveals the problem with the more recent press for "not magical undead, but sexy predatory humans with a disease" ... blood-eating parasites are all much smaller than their hosts. Blood is a rather inefficient food source, so a human-sized blood parasite would have to drain people by the carloads.
The tick swells to almost 300% of it's original size, IIRC. Leeches are also built to expand. Every vampire would have to wake up at sunset looking like Calista Flockheart and end the day looking like the internet-troll vampire from Blade.
Would be an interesting conceit for a short piece.
--fje
resurrectedwarrior:
--- Quote from: Dom on September 04, 2006, 05:38:46 AM ---- christian fantasy (fantasy in general has really been kicking christianity around for years and promoting wicca and new age religions. I think this will backlash; I'm not even christian, and yet I really like Jim Butcher's Carpenter family, because it's christianity treated with respect, which is so rare in the genre.)
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I, personally, would love that. You'd think you'd see some people trying to do this in the Christian market, but there really isn't much fantasy wise--not that's set in the real world, anyway. Most Christian fantasy that I've read either takes place in an alternate universe (LOTR) or have their characters cross-over (Narnia). It would rock to have a urban fantasy or something where the christian chars kick demon butt for JC. Or something. ;D
novium:
isn't there some tongue-in-cheek book about a soccer mom who is a secret agent for the vatican battling demons?
Amber:
--- Quote from: resurrectedwarrior on September 06, 2006, 12:29:19 AM ---
--- Quote from: Dom on September 04, 2006, 05:38:46 AM ---- christian fantasy (fantasy in general has really been kicking christianity around for years and promoting wicca and new age religions. I think this will backlash; I'm not even christian, and yet I really like Jim Butcher's Carpenter family, because it's christianity treated with respect, which is so rare in the genre.)
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I, personally, would love that. You'd think you'd see some people trying to do this in the Christian market, but there really isn't much fantasy wise--not that's set in the real world, anyway. Most Christian fantasy that I've read either takes place in an alternate universe (LOTR) or have their characters cross-over (Narnia). It would rock to have a urban fantasy or something where the christian chars kick demon butt for JC. Or something. ;D
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You might want to try LA Bank's series. I only read the first one, so I don't know if the preachy "jesus lord and saviour" continues through the whole series, though.
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