tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487413006559113471.post4296562940383103370..comments2024-03-14T07:11:37.650+00:00Comments on Porky's Expanse!: Money in old tropes - VampiresPorkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00604351052444947490noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487413006559113471.post-62422409775448703762012-01-06T23:17:51.664+00:002012-01-06T23:17:51.664+00:00@ Trey - That's how it's done. Impressive ...@ Trey - That's how it's done. Impressive tie-in, and all but guaranteed to shift copies. I love how it plays with ideas, and doesn't do the thing by half, but keeps the audience wanting more the whole time. He's having fun too, and the jokes cut painfully close to the bone. Yours is exactly what we'd expect, deeply considered and rewarding of reflection. You could also be in every public library, if not on every bookcase, and with good reason.<br /><br />@ DuendE - I'm glad you think so. I can, and because it helps make the dream real, I have.Porkyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00604351052444947490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487413006559113471.post-29339420190456310992012-01-06T15:41:22.090+00:002012-01-06T15:41:22.090+00:00I'd add to your insightful overview an interes...I'd add to your insightful overview an <a href="http://www.rifters.com/blindsight/vampires.htm" rel="nofollow">interesting take on vampirism</a> by Peter Watts from his novel <i>Blindsight</i>.<br /><br />My own (less original by with a few details of my on invention) take on <a href="http://sorcerersskull.blogspot.com/2010/09/vampires-and-city.html" rel="nofollow">vampires for the City</a> was to cast them as junkies. As William S. Burroughs said: "The face of evil is always the face of total need."Treyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.com