Isn’t Dracula canonically immortal? You could technically write him into The Expanse and be accurate. I guess the scifi people might have an issue with it.
Such a good book. The vampires seem out of place in the hard sci-fi setting at first, but I think it’s actually quite well done, and ends up being very thematically relevant in the story.
Well at what point in space does the sun just become a star and a different star become a sun? Is there a magnitude when it becomes a problem for a vampire. Or is only our sun the problem? Like no matter how little sun light a vampire is exposed to a problem even if the vampire is many many light years away.
Mmm interesting point. This means that either reflected sunlight is fine or that the loss of intensity makes it not not dangerous. I assume most people would agree that using mirrors to reflect sunlight on to a vampire is detrimental to their health and happiness. So it seems like a safe assumption that it is the intensity that matters.
Now we just have to find out if this is a property unique to the sun or if all star light at a certain intensity is unhealthy for vampires.
Time to build an interstellar space ship and fill it with vampires. Luckily they don’t need much in the way of life support systems. So we can do this on the cheap.
There’s a Dracula “sci-fi western” in development now, and it wouldn’t be the first sci-fi film to feature vampires. Blade Trinity was fairly sci-fi and featured a resurrected Vlad III. There are also a whole bunch of low-budget independent films, because the character is public domain.
So it’s been done, but I wouldn’t say it’s been done well. Technology and the ubiquity of cameras make telling vampire stories logistically complicated. Like, they always need to come up with a bunch of handwaves to explain how coffins fly on airplanes piloted by a bunch of human familiars, and how the old legends about running water and being invited in are apocryphal superstitions.
they always need to come up with a bunch of handwaves to explain how coffins fly on airplanes piloted by a bunch of human familiars
That one is easy to explain. Either the vampire is wealthy and has a private aircraft, which is likely if they’re hundreds of years old, or they can ship themselves as the remains of a loved one. I would imagine that any competent modern vampire would have a forger, and a hacker in their household.
How do vampires handle high g forces, I don’t believe it’s ever been addressed. Presumably the ability to turn into a bat would lower his mass and help.
Isn’t Dracula canonically immortal? You could technically write him into The Expanse and be accurate. I guess the scifi people might have an issue with it.
Dracula has the protomolecule, confirmed?
Dracula in an otherwise realistic sci-fi setting would also have some potential.
Lower decks holodeck episode in the style of the Moriarty episodes?
Yup, a direct reference to it.
Check out Blindsight by Peter Watts.
Fun fact, Blindsight is online free at the author’s web site: https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
The vampires appear in Chapter 1, after the Prologue.
Such a good book. The vampires seem out of place in the hard sci-fi setting at first, but I think it’s actually quite well done, and ends up being very thematically relevant in the story.
Check out Vampire Hunter D, although I wouldn’t call it an otherwise realistic sci-fi setting there’s still spaceships and vampires.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_3000
There are a few cases of mythological figures appearing in Bablyon 5. Even King Arthur shows up at one time.
Dracula would have some real problems in outer space, where it’s always daytime.
Well at what point in space does the sun just become a star and a different star become a sun? Is there a magnitude when it becomes a problem for a vampire. Or is only our sun the problem? Like no matter how little sun light a vampire is exposed to a problem even if the vampire is many many light years away.
Moonlight is reflected sunlight, so they can handle a certain amount of sunlight.
Mmm interesting point. This means that either reflected sunlight is fine or that the loss of intensity makes it not not dangerous. I assume most people would agree that using mirrors to reflect sunlight on to a vampire is detrimental to their health and happiness. So it seems like a safe assumption that it is the intensity that matters.
Now we just have to find out if this is a property unique to the sun or if all star light at a certain intensity is unhealthy for vampires.
Time to build an interstellar space ship and fill it with vampires. Luckily they don’t need much in the way of life support systems. So we can do this on the cheap.
I volunteer to be one of the vampires.
Are you currently a vampire? If not I am sorry to inform you that the project doesn’t have the budget to pay for a vampire transition.
Dang it! Well, you can’t blame a guy for trying.
I think I’ve read in some iterations, super old vampires have trouble from the reflected sunlight during full moons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_3000
Stay in a ship with no windows or just chill in the cargo area
His powers would be weakened a bit, but otherwise he’d be fine. Orlok would be the one with serious problems.
Immortal unless he’s killed, which he was.
Somehow, Dracula returned!
Okay but what if we use the Hellsing manga/OVA version of Dracula?
There’s a Dracula “sci-fi western” in development now, and it wouldn’t be the first sci-fi film to feature vampires. Blade Trinity was fairly sci-fi and featured a resurrected Vlad III. There are also a whole bunch of low-budget independent films, because the character is public domain.
So it’s been done, but I wouldn’t say it’s been done well. Technology and the ubiquity of cameras make telling vampire stories logistically complicated. Like, they always need to come up with a bunch of handwaves to explain how coffins fly on airplanes piloted by a bunch of human familiars, and how the old legends about running water and being invited in are apocryphal superstitions.
That one is easy to explain. Either the vampire is wealthy and has a private aircraft, which is likely if they’re hundreds of years old, or they can ship themselves as the remains of a loved one. I would imagine that any competent modern vampire would have a forger, and a hacker in their household.
How do vampires handle high g forces, I don’t believe it’s ever been addressed. Presumably the ability to turn into a bat would lower his mass and help.
Hrm…is it only our sun that’s a problem for him? Like how our sun powers superman but Krypton’s didn’t?
That was the colour of the sun, I think. Ours is yellow, Krypton’s was red.